Nucleon Transversity Distribution in the Continuum and Physical Mass Limit from Lattice QCD

We report a state-of-the-art lattice QCD calculation of the isovector quark transversity distribution of the proton in the continuum and physical mass limit using large-momentum effective theory. The calculation is done at four lattice spacings a = {0.098, 0.085, 0.064, 0.049} fm and various pion masses ranging between 220 and 350 MeV, with proton momenta up to 2.8 GeV. The result is nonperturbatively renormalized in the hybrid scheme with self-renormalization, which treats the infrared physics at large correlation distance properly, and extrapolated to the continuum, physical mass, and infinite momentum limit. We also compare with recent global analyses for the nucleon isovector quark transversity distribution.