Strange quark asymmetry in the nucleon and the NuTeV anomaly

• The NuTeV anomaly of a nonuniversal value of the fundamental parameter sin2thetaW in the electroweak theory has been interpreted as an indication for new physics beyond the standard model. However, the observed quantity depends on a possible asymmetry in the momentum distributions of strange quarks and antiquarks in the nucleon. This asymmetry occurs naturally in a phenomenologically successful physical model for such parton distributions, which reduces the NuTeV result to only about 2 standard deviations from the standard model.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Subatomär fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Subatomic Physics (hsv//eng)

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Elementary particle physics

Elementarpartikelfysik

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