Extraction of kaon partonic distribution functions from Drell-Yan and / Production Data
Claude Bourrely (Aix Marseille Univ, Universite de Toulon, CNRS, CPT, Marseille, France)
; Franco Buccella (INFN, Sezione di Roma I, Roma, Italy); Wen-Chen Chang (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan); Jen-Chieh Peng (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA)
We present an analysis to extract kaon parton distribution functions (PDFs) using meson-induced Drell-Yan and quarkonium production data. Starting from the statistical model first developed for determining the partonic structure of spin-1/2 nucleon and later applied to the spin-0 pion, we have extended this approach to perform a global fit to existing kaon-induced Drell-Yan and production data. These data are well described by the statistical model, allowing an extraction of the kaon PDFs. We find that both the Drell-Yan and the data favor a harder valence distribution for strange quark than for up quark in kaon. The kaon gluon distribution is further constrained by the production data. In particular, the momentum fraction carried by gluons is found to be similar for pion and kaon.