Observations of the transversity parton distribution based on an analysis of
pion-pair production in deep inelastic scattering off transversely polarized
targets are presented. This extraction relies on the knowledge of dihadron
fragmentation functions, which are obtained from electron-positron annihilation
measurements. This is the first attempt to determine the transversity
distribution in the framework of collinear factorization.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of XIX International Workshop on
Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2011), April 11-15, 2011,
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