Meson Form Factors and Deep Exclusive Meson Production Experiments

Pion and kaon electroproduction data play a unique role in Nature and our understanding of them is essential for explaining hadron structure. Precision longitudinal-transverse separated pion and kaon cross sections are of particular interest. They allow for the extraction of meson form factors and validation of understanding of hard exclusive and semi- inclusive reactions (pi(+),K-,pi(0),gamma) towards 3D hadron imaging and potential future flavor decomposition. We review recent data and present prospects for deep exclusive pion and kaon electroproduction at the 12 GeV Je ff erson Lab including the prospects to use projected charged- and neutral pion data to further determine the spin, charge- parity and flavor of GPDs, including the helicity- flip GPDs.