Flavor and Spin Structure of Octet Baryons at Large x

Abstract

The quark flavor and spin distributions in octet baryons are calculated both in the SU(6) quark spectator diquark model and in a perturbative QCD (pQCD) based model. It is shown that the $\Lambda$ has the most significant difference in flavor structure at large $x$ between the two models, though the flavor and spin structure of other baryons can also provide tests of different models. The Drell-Yan process for ${\Sigma }^{\pm }$ beams on isoscalar targets can be used to test different predictions concerning the valence quark flavor structure of the ${\Sigma }^{\pm }$.

Comments: 24 pages, 11 figures, version published in Nucl.Phys.B 574 (2000) 331