Recent progress on studies of Light Quark Flavor Asymmetry at SeaQuest Experiment
Abstract
The Fermilab E906/SeaQuest is an experiment aimed at studying the anti-quark distributions in nucleons and nuclei. The experiment uses a 120 GeV proton beam extracted from the Main Injector at Fermilab. SeaQuest takes advantage of the Drell-Yan process to probe the anti-quark structure in the proton. In the Drell-Yan process, quark from one hadron annihilates with an anti-quark from another hadron, producing a virtual photon which eventually decays into dileptons. The SeaQuest forward spectrometer is designed to detect such dimuons generated by the Drell-Yan process. Ratio of cross-sections of the interaction of proton beam on liquid deuterium and hydrogen targets allows SeaQuest to map out dbar(x)/ubar(x) up to a region of 0 . 45 in Bjorken-x, a region which hasn't been explored yet. Recent progress on the data analysis for dbar(x)/ubar(x) will be presented in this talk.
- Publication:
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APS April Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019APS..APRX09007T