KAON-NUCLEUS DRELL-YAN PROCESSES AND KAON STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS

We investigate the information which could be obtained from Drell-Yan processes with sufficiently intense beams of charged kaons on isoscala r targets, It is found that combinations of K+ and K- Drell-Yan measur ements on isoscalar nuclear targets would allow one to extract the kao n sea quark distributions. These cross sections are also sensitive to the strange valence quark distribution in the kaon, although one would need a significant increase over the presently available kaon fluxes in order to extract this quantity with sufficient accuracy.