Reevaluation of the parton distribution of strange quarks in the nucleon

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An earlier extraction from the HERMES experiment of the polarization-averaged parton distribution of strange quarks in the nucleon has been reevaluated using final data on the multiplicities of charged kaons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering obtained with a kinematically more comprehensive method of correcting for experimental effects.

• General features of the distribution are confirmed, but the rise at low x is less pronounced than previously reported.