Flavor Asymmetry of Nucleon Sea from Detailed Balance

Abstract

In this study, the proton is taken as an ensemble of quark-gluon Fock states. Using the principle of detailed balance, we find $\bar{d}-\bar{u}\approx 0.124$, which is in surprisingly agreement with the experimental observation.

Comments: 4 pages and no figures. Talk presented at the Third Circum-Pan-Pacific Symposium on "High Energy Spin Physics", Oct. 8-13, 2001, Beijing, China