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Sigma Meson Cloud and Proton's Light Flavor Sea Quarks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We take into account the sigma meson cloud effect in the meson cloud model to calculate the distributions of light flavor sea quarks in the proton. Our calculation gives a better description of the data for dˉ(x)/uˉ(x)\bar{d}(x)/\bar{u}(x). We also provide a picture that the probability of finding a physical proton in a Fock state Nω>|N\omega> is reasonable small with a smaller cutoff Λω\Lambda_{\omega}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0409296,
  title  = {Sigma Meson Cloud and Proton's Light Flavor Sea Quarks},
  author = {Feng Huang and Rong-Guang Xu and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0409296},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 latex pages, 4 figures. Version to appear in PLB