Fermilab E906/SeaQuest Drell-Yan Experiment

Journal Article · Wed Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3661581· OSTI ID:21612269

Nakahara, Kazutaka ^[1]

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1. University of Maryland College Park, Department of Physics, College Park, MD 20742-4111 (United States)

The E906/SeaQuest experiment will use the 120 GeV proton beam extracted from the Fermilab Main Injector to measure the Drell-Yan cross section in p-p, p-d, and p-A scattering. Data from liquid hydrogen and deuterium targets will be sensitive to the light anti-quark asymmetry, d-bar/u-bar, over a range of parton momentum fraction 0.04<x<0.45. Previous measurements from the E866/NuSea experiment have shown that while there were clear signs of flavor asymmetry at moderate x, the quark sea became flavor symmetric at higher x, suggesting a possible shift in the underlying mechanism generating the sea. Measurements from solid nuclear targets (carbon, calcium, and tungsten) will determine the modification of antiquark distributions in the nucleus. The results, in addition to being complementary to similar measurements performed through deep inelastic scattering, will also be valuable in providing the nuclear corrections necessary to extract nucleon parton distribution functions from neutrino data. The experiment will start in 2011, and will run for two years.

• OSTI ID: 21612269
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1405, Issue 1; Conference: NUINT11: 7. international workshop on neutrino-nucleus interactions in the few GeV regions, Dehradun (India), 7-11 Mar 2011; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3661581; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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