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process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. *Work supported in part by the Atomic Energy Commission, Contract No. AT(ll-l)-2009 ^Portions of this report have been submitted as a thesis to the faculty of the graduate school of Indiana University by Ronald C. K&mmerud in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree

We have performed a partial-wave analysis of the K^K §K~ system produced in the reaction n~p -> K + K°7r~n at 8 GeV/c. We present the results of the analysis of 30740 events in the mass range 1.24-1.60 GeV/c 2 , with 0.0< -/ < 1.0 GeV 2 /c 2 . In the 1.28-GeV/c 2 mass region, we see evidence for a J PG=s Q~ + resonance in addition to the resonant 1 ++ wave. We observe a 0 _+ resonance and possibly a small 1 ++ resonance in the 1.42-GeV/c 2 region. We also observe a 1 ++ state near 1.5 GeV/c 2 .