Effect of Asymmetric Strange-Antistrange Sea to the NuTeV Anomaly
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✦ hep-ph
astro-phhep-exnucl-exnucl-th
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quarkasymmetrynutevanomalychirallight-flavormodelstrange-antistrange
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We calculate the strange quark and antiquark distributions of the nucleon by using the effective chiral quark model, and find that the strange-antistrange asymmetry can bring a contribution of about 60--100% to the NuTeV deviation of $\sin^{2}\theta_{w}$ from the standard value measured in other electroweak processes. The results are insensitive to different inputs. The light-flavor quark asymmetry of $\bar{d}-\bar{u}$ is also investigated and found to be consistent with the experimental measurements. Therefore the chiral quark model provides a successful picture to understand the NuTeV anomaly, as well as the light-flavor quark asymmetry and the proton spin problem in previous studies.
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