Overview

The goal of the workshop is to bring together experimentalists and theorists studying medium modifications of structure functions, form factors, mesons in the medium, mesonic atoms, etc. to create a synergy between these topics. A comprehensive assessment of the current understanding of medium modifications of hadrons is needed to plan and optimize the next round of experiments. Topics to be discussed during the workshop include:

• Vector and pseudoscalar meson properties in the medium
• Nuclear quark distributions: unpolarized, polarized, flavor dependence, anti-quarks
• In-medium nucleon form factors: Coulomb sum rule, polarization measurements
• Impact of short-range structure of nuclei: y-scaling, short-range correlation studies
• In-medium interactions: energy loss in nuclei, hadronization, color transparency
• Hadrons at high temperatures
• QCD phenomenology
• Unified descriptions of in-medium particle properties including form factors, polarized and unpolarized structure functions
• Consistent description of nuclear interactions in electromagnetic, neutrino-induced, heavy-ion, and Drell-Yan reactions
• Future experiments