Reanalysis of hyperon beta decay data on $F/D$

Abstract

We reanalyse hyperon beta decay data to extract the corresponding F and D values. We show that flavour symmetry breaking effects lead naturally to a reduction of the $F/D$ ratio. For proton and neutron our analyses suggests $F/D=0.49\pm 0.08$ instead of $F/D=0.575\pm 0.016$ which is generally used to analyse the spin data. Our smaller $F/D$ value allows to fullfil the Ellis--Jaffe sum rule implying an unpolarized $s\bar{s}$-sea.

Comments: 6 pages, latex, uses epsf.sty, 1 figure