LIMIT ON THE (D)BAR-(U)BAR ASYMMETRY OF THE NUCLEON SEA FROM DRELL-YAN PRODUCTION

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MCGAUGHEY, PL
MOSS, JM
ALDE, DM
BAER, HW
CAREY, TA
GARVEY, GT
KLEIN, A
LEE, C
LEITCH, MJ
LILLBERG, JW
MISHRA, CS
PENG, JC
BROWN, CN
COOPER, WE
HSIUNG, YB
ADAMS, MR
GUO, R
KAPLAN, DM
MCCARTHY, RL
DANNER, G
WANG, MJ
BARLETT, ML
HOFFMANN, GW
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[1] NO ILLINOIS UNIV,DE KALB,IL 60115
[2] UNIV TEXAS,AUSTIN,TX 78712
[3] FERMI NATL ACCELERATOR LAB,BATAVIA,IL 60510
[4] SUNY STONY BROOK,STONY BROOK,NY 11794
[5] UNIV ILLINOIS,CHICAGO,IL 60680
[6] CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV,CLEVELAND,OH 44106
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1726
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We present an analysis of 800 GeV proton-induced Drell-Yan production data from isoscalar (IS) targets H-2 and C, and from W, which has a large neutron excess. The ratio of cross sections per nucleon, R = sigma(W)/sigma(IS), is sensitive to the difference between the dBAR(x) and uBAR(x structure functions of the proton. We find that R is close to unity in the range 0.04 less-than-or-equal-to x less-than-or-equal-to 0.27, allowing upper limits to be set on the dBAR-uBAR asymmetry. Additionally, the shape of the differential cross section m3 d2-sigma/dx(F) dm for H-2 at x(F) almost-equal-to 0 shows no evidence of an asymmetric sea in the proton. We examine the implications of these data for various models of the violation of the Gottfried sum rule in deep-inelastic lepton scattering.
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