Abstract. We propose a phenomenological approach based in the meson cloud model to obtain the strange quark structure function inside a kaon, considering the strange quark asymmetry inside the nucleon.Keywords: Kaon, strange quark, structure function, asymmetry PACS: 13.75. Jz, 11.30.Hv, 12.39.x, 14.65.Bt The experimental data from CCFR and NuTeV collaborations [1] show that the distribution function for strange and anti-strange quark are asymmetric. If we consider only gluon splitting processes, such asymmetry cannot be found, since the quarks generated by gluons should have the same momentum distribution. So, among the models that have been proposed (or considered) to explain the asymmetry, the most popular are based on meson clouds or A -K fluctuations [2,3]. By using this kind of model, we analyze the behavior of some parameterizations for the strange quark distribution s(x), in terms of the Bjorken scale x, and discuss how to estimate the structure function for a constituent quark in a Kaon.The strange quark distribution in the nucleon sea, as well as the distribution for u and d quarks, can be separated into perturbative and nonperturbative parts. The perturbative part, due to short range fluctuations of the gluon field, cannot contribute to the s -s asymmetry. So, the observed asymmetry is expected to result from nonperturbative processes, such as a meson-baryon configuration. In the meson-baryon configuration, there are processes where the nucleon oscillates to a baryon plus a meson, such as,
p(uud) -> A.{uds) -\-K(us).For instance, the contribution to strange quark distribution comes from the valence s quark in the A and the s in the kaon. The phenomenological approach we consider here is the same one used in Ref.[4] to explain the u -d behavior. Instead of n + or n 0 , we have K + or K0. The formalism is explained in the following. As in [5] we describe the meson composed by a valence quark surrounded by a cloud of partons that is locally colorless and electrically neutral. But the cloud contains some of momentum of the constituent quark. So, the quark in our model have effective degrees of freedom with substructure. The structure function of the constituent quark/antiquark can be extracted