Testing the meson cloud in the nucleon in Drell-Yan processes
Abstract
We discuss the present status of the overlineu- overlined asymmetry in the nucleon and analyze the quantities which are best suited to verify the asymmetry. We find that the Drell-Yan asymmetry is the quantity insensitive to the valence quark distributions and very sensitive to the flavour asymmetry of the sea. We compare the prediction of the meson cloud model with different experimental data including the Fermilab E772 data and recent data of the NA51 Collaboration at CERN and make predictions for the planned Drell-Yan experiments.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics A
- Pub Date:
- February 1996
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9602213
- Bibcode:
- 1996NuPhA.596..397S
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- written in ReVTeX, 26 pages + 10 PS-figures