Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2022) 231: 129-135
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00438-4

Regular Article

Flavor and spin structure of the proton

Department of Physics, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, 144011, Jalandhar, India

^a dahiyah@nitj.ac.in

Received: 20 May 2021
Accepted: 6 January 2022
Published online: 25 January 2022

Abstract

The present work represents an attempt to formulate chiral constituent quark model and study its implications for the flavor and spin structure of the proton. In particular, we discuss the phenomenological quantities affected by chiral symmetry breaking and SU(3) symmetry breaking.