Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2003-02-24
Phys.Lett. B559 (2003) 229-234
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
12 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00342-3
The strange sea of the proton is generally assumed to have quark - antiquark symmetry. However it has been known for some time that non-perturbative processes involving the meson cloud of the proton may break this symmetry. Recently this has been of interest as it affects the analysis of the so-called `NuTeV anomaly', and could explain the large discrepancy between the NuTeV measurement of $\sin^{2} \theta_{W}$ and the currently accepted value. In this paper we re-examine strange - anti-strange asymmetry using the meson cloud model. We calculate contributions to the strange sea arising from fluctuations in the proton wavefunction to states containing either Lambda or Sigma hyperons together with either Kaons or pseudovector $K^{*}$ mesons. We find that we should not ignore fluctuations involving $K^{*}$ mesons in this picture. The strange sea asymmetry is found to be small, and is unlikely to affect the analysis of the Llewellyn-Smith cross section ratios or the Paschos-Wolfenstein relationship.
Cao Fu-Guang
Signal A. I.
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