text: 143,121,1456076469772378114,1653127615,Chris Monahan,"Our new paper just arrived on the arXiv <LINK>! We study how the momentum carried by quarks inside a neutron is related to their spin (relative to the neutron), directly from the theory of the strong nuclear force (which holds the proton together). #physics #QCD @ZhongboK The neutron is very special! :) Yes, you are completely right, in the paper we discuss nucleons, but I thought maybe on twitter more people would have heard of a neutron than a nucleon. Of course that doesn't account for the fact that my followers are basically all physicists...",https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01808,"We present a determination of the non-singlet transversity parton distribution function (PDF) of the nucleon, normalized with respect to the tensor charge at $\mu^2=2$ GeV$^2$ from lattice quantum chromodynamics. We apply the pseudo-distribution approach, using a gauge ensemble with a lattice spacing of 0.094 fm and the light quark mass tuned to a pion mass of 358 MeV. We extract the transversity PDF from the analysis of the short-distance behavior of the Ioffe-time pseudo-distribution using the leading-twist next-to-leading order (NLO) matching coefficients calculated for transversity. We reconstruct the $x$-dependence of the transversity PDF through an expansion in a basis of Jacobi polynomials in order to reduce the PDF ansatz dependence. Within the limitations imposed by a heavier-than-physical pion mass and a fixed lattice spacing, we present a comparison of our estimate for the valence transversity PDF with the recent global fit results based on single transverse spin asymmetry. We find the intrinsic nucleon sea to be isospin symmetric with respect to transversity. ","The transversity parton distribution function of the nucleon using the