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Up and down quark structure of the proton

  • (D0 Collaboration)
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Florida State University
  • University of Manchester
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics InstituteGatchina
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Augustana University
  • Louisiana Tech University
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Universidad de los Andes Colombia
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • University of Virginia
  • Northeastern University
  • University of Kansas
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Panjab University
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • University of Freiburg
  • Lancaster University
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Mississippi
  • Northern Illinois University
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Stony Brook University
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • University of Göttingen
  • University of Washington
  • Michigan State University

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Abstract

We report an improved measurement of the valence u and d quark distributions from the forward-backward asymmetry in the Drell-Yan process using 8.6 fb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96. This analysis provides the values of new structure parameters that are directly related to the valence up and down quark distributions in the proton. In other experimental results measuring the quark content of the proton, d quark contributions are mixed with those from other quark flavors. In this measurement, the u and d quark contributions are separately extracted by applying a factorization of the QCD and electroweak portions of the forward-backward asymmetry.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberL091101
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume110
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2024

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