Flavor asymmetry of the nucleon sea in an unquenched quark model

Abstract

We discuss the flavor asymmetry of the nucleon in an unquenched quark model for baryons in which the effects of quark-antiquark pairs (u anti-u, d anti-d and s anti-s) are taken into account in an explicit form. It is shown that the inclusion of q anti-q pairs leads to an excess of anti-d over anti-u quarks in the proton.

3 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. NSTAR2007, Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons, Springer, 2008

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