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Flavor asymmetry of the nucleon

Nuclear Theory 2017-11-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The flavor asymmetry of the nucleon sea is discussed in an unquenched quark model for baryons in which the effects of quark-antiquark pairs (u anti-u, d anti-d and s anti-s) are taken into account in an explicit form. The inclusion of q anti-q pairs leads automatically to an excess of anti-d over anti-u quarks in the proton, in agreement with experimental data.

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@article{arxiv.0809.4424,
  title  = {Flavor asymmetry of the nucleon},
  author = {R. Bijker and E. Santopinto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4424},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Invited talk at XXXI Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Cocoyoc, Morelos, Mexico, January 7-10, 2008. Revista Mexicana de Fisica S (2008), in press