Location: CERN
Format: 20 min presentation + 5 min Q&A
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Day 1: Monday, June 15 - Open Symposium
• 10:00 – 10:10: Welcome & RRTF Scope – Organizers (H. Avakian, B. Parsamyan, P. Rossi)
• 10:10 – 10:35: The role of Vector Mesons in studies of non-perturbative QCD – Harut Avakian
• 10:35 – 11:00: Vector mesons studies at ZEUS – Alessia Bruni
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break (30 min)
• 11:30 – 11:55: Vector mesons studies at HERMES – Aram Movsisyan
• 11:55 – 12:20: The Impact of Vector Meson Production on Multiplicities and Azimuthal Asymmetries in Unpolarized SIDIS – V. Benesova
• 12:20 – 12:45: Decomposing Longitudinal and Transverse Photon Contributions to SIDIS Observables – Alessandro Bacchetta
12:45 – 14:15: Lunch Break (90 min)
• 14:15 – 14:40: The Role of Longitudinal Photons in the Factorization of Hard Scattering Processes – Leonard Gamberg
• 14:40 – 15:05: Theoretical Uncertainties and Systematic Corrections in Exclusive Vector Meson Production – Kornelija Passek-Kumerički
• 15:05 – 15:30: Modeling Vector Meson Production within the Stringspinner Framework – Albi Kerbizi
• 15:30 – 15:55: Helicity Amplitude Formalism for Vector Meson Leptonic Decays in Photoproduction – Alessandro Pilloni
15:55 – 16:25: Coffee Break (30 min)
• 16:25 – 16:50: The PARTONS Framework: Integrating GPD Models into Event Generators for Exclusive Processes – Paweł Sznajder
• 16:45 – 17:10: GENESIS proposal: AI-Driven Framework for Direct Extraction of Theoretical Parameters from Raw Detector Data – Yaohang Li
17:30 – 19:30: Welcome Reception
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Day 2: Tuesday, June 16 - Experimental Working Group
Goal: Identifying critical challenges in existing data (ZEUS, HERMES, COMPASS, JLab) and defining the necessary requirements for multi-dimensional extraction.
• 09:00 – 10:30: Focus Points: Comparison of recent exclusive VM measurements across facilities (Avakian, Parsamyan, HERMES, ZEUS, Gates)
• 11:00 – 13:00: Focus Points: SDME/Helicity Amplitudes extractions (Austregesilo, Augsten, Diehl, Glazier, Li)
• 14:30 – 17:30: Round table: Cross-Facility Consistency and Systematic Challenges in SDME and Helicity Extractions (All participants)
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Day 3: Wednesday, June 17: MC Development & Theory
Goal: Moving toward a robust MC simulations and a consistent theoretical roadmap
• 09:00 – 11:00: Topical Focus: Requirements for MC generators integrating all relevant polarization degrees of freedom (Dilks, Sznajder, Kerbizi, Singh)
• 11:30 – 13:00: Topical Focus: Theoretical Frameworks and Phenomenological Models for VM Production (Bhattacharya, Yuan, Bacchetta, Gamberg, Pilloni)
• 14:00 – 17:30: Round Table:From Theory to Simulation: Integrating Phenomenological Models into High-Precision MC Frameworks (All participants)
• 19:30: Social Dinner
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Day 4: Thursday, June 18 - Strategy & Deliverables
Goal: Outlining the final RRTF report and roadmap for current and future studies.
• 09:00 – 11:00: Free Discussion:
1) Addressing missing measurement
2) Coordination of MC development
3) Development of common tools for validation of extracted helicity amplitudes and SDME
• 11:00 – 17:30: Strategic Session: Drafting the outline for the EPJA publication and final report.