ar X iv : h ep - p h / 96 03 25 2 v 1 8 M ar 1 99 6 Sea contributions to spin 1 / 2 baryon structure , magnetic moments , and spin distribution

We treat the baryon as a composite system made out of a " core " of three quarks (as in the standard quark model) surrounded by a " sea " (of gluons and q ¯ q-pairs) which is specified by its total quantum numbers like flavor, spin and color. Specifically, we assume the sea to be a flavor octet with spin 0 or 1 but no color. The general wavefunction for spin 1/2 baryons with such a sea component is given. Application to the magnetic moments is considered. Numerical analysis shows that a scalar (spin 0) sea with an admixture of a vector (spin 1) sea can provide very good fits to the magnetic moment data using experimental errors. Our best fit automatically gives g A /g V for neutron beta decay in agreement with data. This fit also gives reasonable values for the spin distributions of the proton and neutron.