The Skyrme Model piNN Form Factor and the Sea Quark Distribution of the Nucleon

Abstract

We calculate the sea quark distribution of the nucleon in a meson cloud model. The novel feature of our calculation is the implementation of a special piNN form factor recently obtained by Holzwarth and Machleidt. This form factor is hard for small and soft for large momentum transfers. We show that this feature leads to a substantial improvement.

9 pages, 5 figures; v2: some typos corrected, including eq. (9)