Moments of generalised parton distributions can be related to off-forward matrix elements of local operators. We calculate a few of the leading twist matrix elements for the pion on the lattice. The simulations are performed using two flavours of dynamical fermions and a range of pion masses from 550 to 1090 MeV. Our lattice spacings and spatial volumes lie in the range 0.07-0.12 fm and (1.6-2.2 fm)^3, respectively. Key features of our investigation are the use of O(a) improved Wilson fermions and non-perturbative renormalisation. We present first results for the two lowest moments of the generalised parton distributions of the pion and compare the pion electromagnetic form factor F_pi to experimental data. Good agreement is found between lattice data and experiment.
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0509133,
title = {Structure of the Pion from Full Lattice QCD},
author = {D. Brömmel and M. Diehl and M. Göckeler and Ph. Hägler and R. Horsley and D. Pleiter and P. E. L. Rakow and A. Schäfer and G. Schierholz and J. M. Zanotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0509133},
year = {2008}
}