Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 753, Issue -, Pages 595-599Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.062
Keywords
Charge symmetry; Parton distributions; Electromagnetic correction
Funding
- University of Adelaide
- Australian Research Council through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale
- Australian Research Council [FL0992247, DP151103101, DP110101265, FT120100821]
- Australian Research Council [FT120100821] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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We report a calculation of the combined effect of photon radiation and quark mass differences on charge symmetry violation (CSV) in the parton distribution functions of the nucleon. Following a recent suggestion of Martin and Ryskin, the initial photon distribution is calculated in terms of coherent radiation from the proton as a whole, while the effect of the quark mass difference is based on a recent lattice QCD simulation. The distributions are then evolved to a scale at which they can be compared with experiment by including both QCD and QED radiation. Overall, at a scale of 5 GeV2, the total CSV effect on the phenomenologically important difference between the dand u-quark distributions is some 20% larger than the value based on quark mass differences alone. In total these sources of CSV account for approximately 40% of the NuTeV anomaly. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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