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Strangeness in the proton from $W+$ charm production and SIDIS data

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/7h25-3lg7· OSTI ID:3001566
 [1];  [2];  [2]
  1. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
  2. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
We perform a global QCD analysis of unpolarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton, including new π‘Š+⁒ charm production data from 𝑝⁒𝑝 collisions at the LHC and semi-inclusive pion and kaon production data in lepton-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering, both of which have been suggested for constraining the strange quark PDF. Compared with a baseline global fit that does not include these datasets, the new analysis reduces the uncertainty on the strange quark distribution over the range 0.01 < π‘₯ < 0.3, and provides a consistent description of processes sensitive to strangeness in the proton. Including the new datasets, the ratio of strange to nonstrange sea quark distributions is $$R_s = (s + \bar{s})/(\bar{u} +\bar{d})$$ $$=$$ {$$0.7⁒2^{+0.52}_{βˆ’0.34}, 0.4⁒6^{+0.30}_{βˆ’0.20}, 0.3⁒2^{+0.23}_{βˆ’0.15}$$} for π‘₯ ={$$0.01, 0.04, 0.1$} at 𝑄2 $$=$$ 4 GeV2. The data place more stringent constraints on the strange asymmetry $$(s - \bar{s})$$, which is found to be consistent with zero in this range.
Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177
OSTI ID:
3001566
Report Number(s):
DOE/OR/23177--7761; JLAB-THY--25-6; arXiv:2501.00665
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 112; ISSN 2470-0010; ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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