Exploring the Pion phenomenology within a fully covariant constituent   quark model
  An overview of the vector and tensor Generalized Parton Distributions for a charged pion is presented. Such observables, belonging to the set of quantities fundamental for a detailed investigation of the hadronic inner dynamics, have been evaluated within a fully covariant Constituent Quark Model, based on a proper Ansatz of the pion Bethe-Salpeter Amplitude and the Mandelstam formula for matrix elements of operators acting on relativistic composite systems. Given the very encouraging results already obtained for the vector distribution of a charged pion, the model has been extended to the tensor one, and some preliminary calculations will be illustrated. 
Giovanni Salme' (INFN -Roma), Emanuele Pace (Tor Vergata Univ.) and   Giovanni Romanelli (Tor Vergata Univ.)
hep-ph