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Redetermination of proton sea distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-05-20 v1

Abstract

The shapes of light flavor sea quark distributions of the proton are examined directly from two rounds of NNLO global analysis of HERA e±pe^{\pm}p deep inelastic scattering cross section measurements, termed as HERAshape and the ATLAS measurement of W±/ZW^{\pm}/Z production from pppp collision at s\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV, termed as ATLASshape. An asymmetric distribution between anti-up (\ubar\ubar) quark and anti-down (\dbar\dbar) quark is found in both analysis, showing that the anti-up quark distribution exceeds over anti-down quark distribution in the momentum fraction range x(102,1)x\in(10^{-2}, 1) of these partons. The Gottfried Sum Rule is reevaluated from these extracted parton distribution functions and the obtained value differs surprisingly from that of the NMC and the NuSea Collaborations.

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@article{arxiv.2605.19918,
  title  = {Redetermination of proton sea distributions},
  author = {Alim Ruzi and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.19918},
  year   = {2026}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures