1. Measurement of parton distributions of strange quarks in the nucleon from charged-kaon production in deep-inelastic scattering on the deuteron
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A. Reischl, W. Augustyniak, R. Perez-Benito, B. Maiheu, Alessandra Fantoni, D. Veretennikov, M. Negodaev, B. Hommez, G. Ciullo, Tetsuya Hasegawa, M. Hoek, E. De Sanctis, V. A. Gapienko, W.H.A. Hesselink, B. Zihlmann, Y. Naryshkin, P. E. Reimer, A. Kisselev, J. G. Rubin, A. Brull, B. Tchuiko, M. Kopytin, Cynthia Marie Hadjidakis, Y. Miyachi, A. Nass, G. Gapienko, I. Lehmann, D. Hasch, A. López Ruiz, Z. Akopov, A. Elalaoui-Moulay, Frank Ellinghaus, C. Shearer, B. Seitz, A. Hillenbrand, Y. Imazu, E. Nappi, Y. Van Haarlem, Michael Tytgat, E. R. Kinney, Y. Holler, A. Airapetian, U. Elschenbroich, S. Taroian, P. Lenisa, David Mahon, Y. Salomatin, B. Marianski, A. Trzcinski, P. B. van der Nat, J. Burns, Shan Wang, F. Stinzing, Andreas Schäfer, H. E. Jackson, V. G. Krivokhijine, A. Funel, B. Q. Ma, J. J. M. Steijger, Michael Düren, G. van der Steenhoven, A. Osborne, M. Stancari, P. Zupranski, C. Riedl, S. E. Rock, P. Di Nezza, V. Vikhrov, L. Rubacek, R. De Leo, A. Rostomyan, K. Rith, C. B. Van Hulse, A. Borissov, A. R. Reolon, A. Avetissian, M. Capiluppi, P. Liebing, A. Ivanilov, S. Belostotski, G. Rosner, H. Böttcher, V. Bryzgalov, J. Dreschler, L. De Nardo, W. Yu, F. Garibaldi, Morgan Murray, G. Iarygin, Zhenyu Ye, E. C. Aschenauer, G. Hill, K. P. Schüler, Y. X. Ye, P.F. Dalpiaz, J. Stewart, I. Vilardi, Andreas Mussgiller, A. Andrus, M. Diefenthaler, V. Gharibyan, P. Tait, L. A. Linden-Levy, W.-D. Nowak, T. A. Shibata, E. Avetissian, M. Demey, Nicola Bianchi, R.O. Avakian, H. Marukyan, C. Bonomo, E. Cisbani, V. A. Kozlov, D. Reggiani, G. Schnell, F. Giordano, S. Joosten, J. Streit, I. M. Gregor, H. Ye, A. Jgoun, Arne Vandenbroucke, Riccardo Fabbri, L. Manfré, Stephen V. Gliske, H. Guler, M. Varanda, L. Felawka, X. R. Lu, L. Lagamba, S. Yen, G. P. Capitani, Ralf Kaiser, E. Steffens, G. Gavrilov, L. Lapikás, M. Contalbrigo, Martin Raithel, I. Sanjiev, Naomi C R Makins, M. Ehrenfried, Andrey V. Izotov, C. A. Miller, D. Gabbert, Tsutomu Kobayashi, M. Statera, S. Frullani, N. Pickert, Dirk Ryckbosch, D. Zeiler, C. Vogel, V. A. Korotkov, G. Elbakian, S. Lu, Y. J. Mao, P. Kravchenko, Adel Terkulov, T. Keri, L. L. Pappalardo, Hasko Stenzel, Wouter Deconinck, Valeria Muccifora, V. Mexner, A. Nagaitsev, N. Akopov, S. Yaschenko, Vitaly Shutov, H. P. Blok, Wolfgang Lorenzon, Ivana Hristova, R. Lamb, (Astro)-Particles Physics, Photo Conversion Materials, and Student Lab and Education
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Quark ,Particle physics ,Strange quark ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Nuclear Theory ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Parton ,01 natural sciences ,NO ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,13.60.-r ,13.88.+e ,14.20.Dh ,14.65.-q ,0103 physical sciences ,ddc:530 ,SDG 14 - Life Below Water ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Scattering ,Deep inelastic scattering ,Helicity ,Strange matter ,Physics and Astronomy ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nucleon - Abstract
The momentum and helicity density distributions of the strange quark sea in the nucleon are obtained in leading order from charged-kaon production in deep-inelastic scattering on the deuteron. The distributions are extracted from spin-averaged K+/- multiplicities, and from K+/- and inclusive double-spin asymmetries for scattering of polarized positrons by a polarized deuterium target. The shape of the momentum distribution is softer than that of the average of the ubar and dbar quarks. In the region of measurement 0.02 < x < 0.6 and Q^2 > 1.0 GeV^2, the helicity distribution is zero within experimental uncertainties., 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; text slightly expanded, 10 references added
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- 2008
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