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TRANSVERSITY 2008 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Transverse Polarization Phenomena in Hard Processes
No full textTransversity 2008, the second workshop on Transverse polarization phenomena in hard processes, follows the first one held in Como after three years. As in that case, the event comes at the end of a two-years project financed by the Italian Ministry of Education. In the time between the two Workshops, decisive steps towards the revealing of the transverse spin structure of the proton were taken on both the theoretical and experimental sides. The milestone of the first extraction of Transversity and the Sivers function for the u- and d-quarks deserves a special mention. In the same period, historic experiments that in the last decade contributed to the first pioneering measurements in the SIDIS sector, have concluded their data taking, and their place is being taken by upgrades of existing or new facilities. These are the result of the new interesting phenomena which are appearing and call for additional experimental information and novel experimental techniques. Over 80 physicists took part in the Workshop. Equally involved were experimentalists and theoreticians engaged in investigating the nature of transverse spin. The heterogeneous public favoured vivid discussions and fruitful exchange of up-to-date theoretical and experimental ideas on this constantly evolving subject
Transversity 2008 - Second Worshop on Transverse Polarisation Phenomena in Hard Processes
No full textTransversity and transverse spin are one of the presently most debated issues in Hadron Physics. The present Workshop is organized in the frame of a Ministry-funded inter-university Research Project of National Interest (PRIN) specifically dedicated to this aspect and follows the one held in Como in 2005. The members of the project have planned this Workshop to gather together theorists and experimentalists engaged in investigating the nature of transverse spin in hadron physics, with the aim of exchanging up-to-date theoretical and experimental ideas and news on the subject.
The Conference will take place in the meeting room of Camera di Commercio of Ferrara, just in front of Castello Estense.
On the basis of the previous experience, we are expecting a total of 70-80 participants and plan a number of theoretical and experimental presentations with approximately 40 speakers (by invitation only) and one or two round-table discussions
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