Exclusive reactions are becoming one of the major sources of information about the deep structure of nucleons and other hadrons. The 2007 International Workshop held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia, USA — the world’s leading facility performing research on nuclear, hadronic and quark-gluon structure of matter — focused on the application of a variety of exclusive reactions at high momentum transfer, utilizing unpolarized and polarized beams and targets, to obtain information about nucleon ground-state and excited-state structure at short distances. This is a subject which is central to the programs of current accelerators and especially planned future facilities.

This proceedings volume contains, in concentrated form, information about the newest developments, both theoretical and experimental, in the study of hard exclusive reactions.

Contents:

• Hard Exclusive Scattering at JLab (P Kroll)
• Color Transparency: 33 Years and Still Running (M Strikman)
• DVCS at HERMES: Recent Results (F Ellinghaus)
• Deeply Virtual Pseudoscalar Meson Production (V Kubarovsky & P Stoler)
• High Energy Break-up of Few-Nucleon Systems (M Sargsian)
• A Review of the Few-Body Form Factors (G G Petratos)
• Timelike Form Factors (K K Seth)
• Pion-Nucleon Distribution Amplitudes (A Peters)
• Transition Distribution Amplitudes (J P Lansberg et al.)
• HERMES Recoil Detector (R Perez-Benito)
• and other papers