https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2006-02525-7
Theoretical Physics
Sea quark polarization and semi-inclusive DIS data
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
2
Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pab.1, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina
* e-mail: jiang@jlab.org
Received:
13
February
2006
Published online:
15
May
2006
We investigate the potential impact of forthcoming Jefferson Lab semi-inclusive polarized deep inelastic scattering proton measurements in the determination of the sea quark polarization in the nucleons by means of a next to leading order global QCD analysis. Specifically, we estimate the resulting improvement in the constraints on polarized parton densities for different flavors, which is found to be significant for up and strange quarks, and the correlation between remaining uncertainty ranges for each of the parton species.
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