Flavor Dependence of Sea Quark Structure Functions
Abstract
Quark masses are shown to play an important role in the nucleon sea. Our analysis using massive QCD splitting functions demonstrates the existence of two Feynman-$x$ sea regimes. For small $x$ the strange sea is larger while at large $x$ the non-strange light sea is dominant. This crossover effect has been observed in a phenomenological analysis by the CTEQ Collaboration. We also investigate the charm component in the nucleon.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 1993
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9307299
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9307299
- Bibcode:
- 1993hep.ph....7299K
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- Standard Latex file, 6 pages of text. 2 postscript figures, uuencoded and submitted to hep-ph. (Also available by fax or mail.) MAD/PH/746