TY - JOUR AU - Brömmel, D. AU - Diehl, M. AU - Göckeler, M. AU - Hägler, Ph. AU - Horsley, R. AU - Nakamura, Y. AU - Pleiter, D. AU - Rakow, P. E. L. AU - Schäfer, A. AU - Schierholz, G. AU - Stüben, H. AU - Zanotti, J. M. TI - Spin Structure of the Pion JO - Physical review letters VL - 101 IS - 12 SN - 1079-7114 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - FZJ-2017-05628 SP - 122001 PY - 2008 AB - We present the first calculation of the transverse spin structure of the pion in lattice QCD. Our simulations are based on two flavors of non-perturbatively improved Wilson fermions, with pion masses as low as 400 MeV in volumes up to (2.1 fm)^3 and lattice spacings below 0.1 fm. We find a characteristic asymmetry in the spatial distribution of transversely polarized quarks. This asymmetry is very similar in magnitude to the analogous asymmetry we previously obtained for quarks in the nucleon. Our results support the hypothesis that all Boer-Mulders functions are alike. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.122001 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/836522 ER -