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Flavor Asymmetry of the Nucleon Sea: Consequences for Dilepton Production

Estia J. Eichten, Ian Hinchliffe, Chris Quigg

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9210239

Abstract

Parton distributions derived from a chiral quark model that generates an excess of down quarks and antiquarks in the proton's sea satisfactorily describe the measured yields of muon pairs produced in proton-nucleus collisions. Comparison of dilepton yields from hydrogen and deuterium targets promises greater sensitivity to the predicted flavor asymmetry.

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