Speaker
Arun Tadepalli
(Rutgers University)
Description
The Fermilab E906/SeaQuest is an experiment aimed at studying the anti-quark distributions in nucleons and nuclei. The experiment uses a 120 GeV proton beam extracted from the Main Injector at Fermilab to collide with various liquid and cryogenic targets to study a variety of physics topics ranging from light quark flavor asymmetry to the EMC effect in the nucleon sea. It takes advantage of the Drell-Yan process to probe the anti-quark structure. In the Drell-Yan process, a quark from one hadron annihilates with an anti-quark from another hadron, producing a virtual photon which eventually decays into a dilepton pair. The SeaQuest forward spectrometer is optimized for detecting such di-muon pairs. The overall status of the experiment and recent results regarding dbar/ubar ratio and EMC effect studies will be presented in this talk.
Primary author
Arun Tadepalli
(Rutgers University)
