Ds Asymmetry in Photoproduction

Abstract

By adopting two models of strange and antistrange quark distributions inside nucleon, the light-cone meson-baryon fluctuation model and the effective chiral quark model, we calculate the [Formula: see text] asymmetry in photoproduction in the framework of heavy-quark recombination mechanism. We find that the effect of asymmetry of strange sea to the Ds asymmetry is considerable and depending on the different models. Therefore, we expect that with the further study in electroproduction, e.g. at HERA and CEBAF, the experimental measurements on the [Formula: see text] asymmetry may impose a strong restriction on the strange-antistrange distribution asymmetry models.