Flavor asymmetry of the nucleon sea

F. M. Steffens and A. W. Thomas
Phys. Rev. C 55, 900 – Published 1 February 1997
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Abstract

We reexamine the effects of antisymmetry on the antiquarks in the nucleon sea arising from gluon exchange and pion exchange between confined quarks. While the effect is primarily to suppress down relative to up antiquarks, this is numerically insignificant for the pion terms.

  • Received 12 August 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.55.900

©1997 American Physical Society

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F. M. Steffens and A. W. Thomas

  • Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, and Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, S.A. 5005, Australia

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Vol. 55, Iss. 2 — February 1997

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