Scalar and Tensor Sea Contributions to Nucleons

TL;DR

This paper uses a statistical approach to analyze the contributions of scalar, vector, and tensor sea components in nucleons, providing predictions for spin distributions that align closely with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive statistical model considering various sea contributions to better predict nucleon properties, improving upon simpler models.

Findings

Predicted spin distribution values closely match EMC experimental data.

Scalar, vector, and tensor sea contributions significantly affect nucleon properties.

Model results agree with SU(6) quark model predictions.

Abstract

Statistical approach for proton and neutron have been used to study the low energy properties of nucleons. Nucleons is assumed as a composite system of three quarks and "sea" where sea is assumed to be in S-wave consisting of quark-antiquark pairs (u]\bar{u},d\bar{d} only) and gluons. Here the contributions from scalar, vector and tensor sea is taken into consideration to find {\alpha} and {\beta}. Distribution of spin among valence quarks and sea-quark for proton and neutron are denoted by I_1^pand I_1^n respectively. Statistical model predicted the values as 0.132 and -0.011 which is close to EMC experimental value 0.136 and -0.013 for I_1^p and I_1^n respectively. Although the statistical model predictions give close to EMC data for neutron spin distribution. The results have also been compared with the Simple quark model results that matches well with SU(6) model..