Measurements of the ratio of Drell-Yan yields from an 800 \rm{ GeV/c} proton beam incident on liquid hydrogen and deuterium targets are reported. Approximately 360,000 Drell-Yan muon pairs remained after all cuts on the data. From these data, the ratio of anti-down ($\bar{ d}$) to anti-up ($\bar{ u}$) quark distributions in the proton sea is determined over a wide range in Bjorken-$x$. These results confirm previous measurements by E866 and extend them to lower $x$. From these data, $(\bar{ d}-\bar{ u})$ and $\int(\bar{ d}-\bar{ u})dx$ are evaluated for $0.015<x<0.35$. These results are compared with parameterizations of various parton distribution functions, models and experimental results from NA51, NMC, and HERMES.

Categories: hep-ex

Improved Measurement of the $\bar d / \bar u$ Asymmetry in the Nucleon Sea