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Light quark distributions in the proton sea

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We use the meson cloud model to calculate dˉ(x)uˉ(x)\bar{d}(x) - \bar{u}(x) and dˉ(x)/uˉ(x) \bar{d}(x)/\bar{u}(x) in the proton. We show that a modification of the symmetric, perturbative part of the light quark sea provides better agreement with the ratio $ \bar{d}(x)/\bar{u}(x).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908507,
  title  = {Light quark distributions in the proton sea},
  author = {Mary Alberg and Ernest M. Henley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908507},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX. Talk presented at PANIC 99