Determination of light-flavor asymmetry in the Σ^± sea by the Drell-Yan process

1996/03/26 by Mary Alberg, Ernest M. Henley, Alberg, Mary +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9603405

6 pages, RevTeX

arxiv created 1996/03/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We propose a flavor asymmetry in the light quark sea of Σ^±, which can be measured in Drell-Yan experiments using charged hyperon beams on proton and deuteron targets. Such a measurement would help to reinforce the presence of pseudoscalar mesons in a quark model of baryons.

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