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Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in the Sea of the Nucleon

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
We derive the nonanalytic chiral behavior of the flavor asymmetry {bar D}-{bar u} . Such behavior is a unique characteristic of Goldstone boson loops in chiral theories, including QCD, and establishes the unambiguous role played by the Goldstone boson cloud in the sea of the proton. Generalizing the results to the SU(3) sector, we show that strange chiral loops require that the s-{bar s} distribution be nonzero.
Sponsoring Organization:
(US)
OSTI ID:
40205855
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 14 Vol. 85; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
The American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English