Delta s density in a proton and unpolarized lepton - polarized proton scatterings

Abstract

It is shown that the parity--violating deep--inelastic scatterings of unpolarized charged leptons on polarized protons, $\ell^{\mp} + \vec P\to \stackrel{\scriptscriptstyle(-)}{ν_{\ell}} + X$, could provide a sensitive test for the behavior and magnitude of the polarized strange--quark density in a proton. Below charm threshold these processes are also helpful to uniquely determine the magnitude of individual polarized parton distributions.