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Pions in isospin asymmetric matter and nuclear Drell-Yan scattering

C. L. Korpa, A. E. L. Dieperink

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9812003

Abstract

Using a self-consistent delta-hole model the pion propagation in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter is studied. In neutron-rich matter, corresponding to heavy nuclei, a significant difference in positive and negative pion light-cone distributions is obtained leading to a nuclear enhancement of up antiquark distribution compared to the down antiquark one. This means that the sea-quark asymmetry in the free nucleon cannot be extracted model independently from an experiment on a neutron-rich nucleus.

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