Strange Asymmetries in the Nucleon Sea

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  • W. Melnitchouk
  • M. Malheiro
چکیده

Relativistic corrections to the strange axial form factor are evaluated within a light-cone formalism, taking into account effects due to the breaking of Lorentz covariance associated with the use of one-body currents. Similar corrections are known to also be needed for the magnetic form factor, and we discuss the importance of these for recent data on strange electromagnetic form factors from the HAPPEX Collaboration at Jefferson Lab. The strange vector form factors, the strange axial charge, and the asymmetries in strange quark distributions are shown to be consistently correlated within the chiral cloud model.

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تاریخ انتشار 1999