Published June 2001 | Version v1
Journal article

The flavor asymmetry of polarized anti-quarks in the nucleon

  • 1. Inst. of Fundamental Sciences, Massey Univ., Palmerston North (New Zealand)

Description

We present a study of the flavor asymmetry of polarized anti-quarks in the nucleon using the meson cloud model. We include contributions both from the vector mesons and the interference terms of pseudoscalar and vector mesons. Employing the bag model, we first give the polarized valence quark distribution of the ρ meson and the interference distributions. Our calculations show that the interference effect mildly increases the prediction for Δanti d(x)- Δanti u(x) at intermediate x region. We also discuss the contribution of ''Pauli blocking'' to the asymmetry. (orig.)

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Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C
Journal Volume
21
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 105-114
ISSN
1434-6044