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arxiv: hep-ph/0106074 · v3 · submitted 2001-06-07 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex· nucl-ex· nucl-th

Detailed Balance and Sea-Quark Flavor Asymmetry of Proton

classification ✦ hep-ph hep-exnucl-exnucl-th
keywords protonasymmetrybalancedetailedflavorfockstatesagreement
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In this study, the proton is taken as an ensemble of quark-gluon Fock states. Using the principle of detailed balance, the probabilities of finding every Fock states of the proton are obtained without any parameter. A new origin of the light flavor sea quark asymmetry, i.e., $\bar{u} \not= \bar{d}$, is given as a pure statistical effect. It is found that $\bar{d}-\bar{u} \approx 0.124$, which is in surprisingly agreement with the experimental observation.

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