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140: 266: 25: 316: 479:) has studied this with inconclusive results in the antishadowing region and with no results in the "EMC effect" region. SeaQuest will be able to yield more statistically precise results regarding the antishadowing region, and will be able to probe into the "EMC effect" region, where no Drell–Yan data has yet been seen. 437: 351:'s in the proton. The Gottfried sum evaluated by NMC from the data of deep inelastic muon scattering on a proton and a deuteron targets was 0.235±0.026 which is smaller than the expected value of 0.333. This means that 307:. It will use a 120 GeV proton beam extracted from the Fermilab Main Injector. The experiment will also examine the modifications to the antiquark structure of the proton from nuclear binding. 654: 371:
from 0 to 1.0 is 0.147±0.039, indicating a flavor asymmetry in the proton sea. In the early 1990s, DYSSIS (CERN-NA51) made a measurement of Drell–Yan process in the low Bjorken
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structure of the nucleon and the modifications to that structure. With these measurements, SeaQuest will also be able to quantify the energy loss of a
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Aubert, J.J.; Bassompierre, G.; Becks, K.H.; Best, C.; Böhm, E.; et al. (CERN European Muon Collaboration) (1983).
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Arneodo, M.; Arvidson, A.; Badelek, B.; Ballintijn, M.; Baum, G.; et al. (CERN NMC) (1994-07-01).
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SeaQuest has been approved by Fermilab to extend previous down to up antiquark measurements to larger
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Amaudruz, P.; Arneodo, M.; Arvidson, A.; Badelek, B.; Baum, G.; et al. (CERN NMC) (1991-05-27).
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Baldit, A.; Barrière, C.; Castor, J.; Chambon, T.; Devaux, A.; et al. (CERN NA51) (1994).
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To measure the asymmetry of up and down antiquarks in the nucleon sea using Drell–Yan
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and how this structure is modified when the proton or neutron is included within an
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is particularly well-suited to carry out a measurement of energy loss of
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as they propagate through nuclear matter. Since the products—a virtual
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to measure the contributions of antiquarks to the structure of the
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In studying a free nucleon and a nucleon bound in a nucleus, the
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SeaQuest expected uncertainties for extending to higher Bjorken x
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have a different distribution of momentum among their component
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E-906/SeaQuest is a particle physics experiment which will use
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E-906/SeaQuest experiment is part of a series of fixed target
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SeaQuest Research Project at Nuclear Physics Group Illinois
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Drell–Yan
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