It is commonly believed that the Sivers function has uniquely to do with processes involving a transversely polarized nucleon. In this Letter we show that this is not necessarily the case. We demonstrate that exclusive pion production in unpolarized electron-proton scattering in the forward region is a direct probe of the gluon Sivers function due to its connection to the QCD odderon.
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