Related papers: The GlueX DIRC Project

The GlueX DIRC Program

The GlueX experiment is located in experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab (JLab) and provides a unique capability to search for hybrid mesons in high-energy photoproduction, utilizing a ~9 GeV linearly polarized photon beam. The initial,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 A. Ali , F. Barbosa , J. Bessuille , E. Chudakov , R. Dzhygadlo , C. Fanelli , J. Frye , J. Hardin , A. Hurley , G. Kalicy , J. Kelsey , W. Li , M. Patsyuk , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Shepherd , J. R. Stevens , T. Whitlatch , M. Williams , Y. Yang

Installation and Commissioning of the GlueX DIRC

The GlueX experiment takes place in experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab (JLab). With a linearly polarized photon beam of up to 12 GeV energy, GlueX is a dedicated experiment to search for hybrid mesons via photoproduction reactions. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-03 A. Ali , F. Barbosa , J. Bessuille , E. Chudakov , R. Dzhygadlo , C. Fanelli , J. Frye , J. Hardin , A. Hurley , E. Ihloff , G. Kalicy , J. Kelsey , W. B. Li , M. Patsyuk , J. Schwiening , M. Shepherd , J. R. Stevens , T. Whitlatch , M. Williams , Y. Yang

Initial performance of the GlueX DIRC detector

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Laboratory aims to perform quantitative tests of non-perturbative QCD by studying the spectrum of light-quark mesons and baryons. A Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light (DIRC) was installed to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 A. Ali , F. Barbosa , J. Bessuille , E. Chudakov , R. Dzhygadlo , C. Fanelli , J. Frye , J. Hardin , A. Hurley , E. Ihloff , G. Kalicy , J. Kelsey , W. B. Li , M. Patsyuk , J. Schwiening , M. Shepherd , J. R. Stevens , T. Whitlatch , M. Williams , Y. Yang

A study of decays to strange final states with GlueX in Hall D using components of the BaBar DIRC

We propose to enhance the kaon identification capabilities of the GlueX detector by constructing an FDIRC (Focusing Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov) detector utilizing the decommissioned BaBar DIRC components. The GlueX FDIRC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-08-04 The GlueX Collaboration , M. Dugger , B. Ritchie , I. Senderovich , E. Anassontzis , P. Ioannou , C. Kourkoumeli , G. Vasileiadis , G. Voulgaris , N. Jarvis , W. Levine , P. Mattione , W. McGinley , C. A. Meyer , R. Schumacher , M. Staib , F. Klein , D. Sober , N. Sparks , N. Walford , D. Doughty , A. Barnes , R. Jones , J. McIntyre , F. Mokaya , B. Pratt , W. Boeglin , L. Guo , E. Pooser , J. Reinhold , H. Al Ghoul , V. Crede , P. Eugenio , A. Ostrovidov , A. Tsaris , D. Ireland , K. Livingston , D. Bennett , J. Bennett , J. Frye , M. Lara , J. Leckey , R. Mitchell , K. Moriya , M. R. Shepherd , O. Chernyshov , A. Dolgolenko , A. Gerasimov , V. Goryachev , I. Larin , V. Matveev , V. Tarasov , F. Barbosa , E. Chudakov , M. Dalton , A. Deur , J. Dudek , H. Egiyan , S. Furletov , M. Ito , D. Mack , D. Lawrence , M. McCaughan , M. Pennington , L. Pentchev , Y. Qiang , E. Smith , A. Somov , S. Taylor , T. Whitlatch , B. Zihlmann , R. Miskimen , B. Guegan , J. Hardin , J. Stevens , M. Williams , V. Berdnikov , G. Nigmatkulov , A. Ponosov , D. Romanov , S. Somov , I. Tolstukhin , C. Salgado , P. Ambrozewicz , A. Gasparian , R. Pedroni , T. Black , L. Gan , S. Dobbs , K. Seth , X. Ting , A. Tomaradze , T. Beattie , G. Huber , G. Lolos , Z. Papandreou , A. Semenov , I. Semenova , W. Brooks , H. Hakobyan , S. Kuleshov , O. Soto , A. Toro , I. Vega , N. Gevorgyan , H. Hakobyan , V. Kakoyan

The GlueX Experiment: Recent Results and Future Plans

The GlueX experiment, located in experimental Hall D of Jefferson Lab, seeks to map the spectrum of light mesons in search of exotic hybrid mesons, a predicted class of hadronic states with explicit gluonic degrees of freedom. GlueX is a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-01-08 Jonathan Zarling

Gluonic Excitations and Experimental Hall-D at Jefferson Lab

A new tagged photon beam facility is being constructed in experimental Hall-D at Jefferson Lab as a part of the 12 GeV upgrade program. The 9 GeV linearly-polarized photon beam will be produced via coherent Bremsstrahlung using the CEBAF…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-07-09 Justin R. Stevens

Searching for Hybrid Mesons with GlueX

Hybrid mesons consist of a quark-antiquark pair bound together by a gluonic field that is in an excited state. Measuring the spectrum of these states will provide valuable information on the gluonic degrees of freedom of QCD in the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Sean Dobbs

Searches for Exotic Hadrons at GlueX

The search for hybrid mesons and the detailed study of their spectrum is the primary goal of the GlueX Experiment in Hall D at Jefferson Lab. The identification and study of hybrid mesons promises to provide unique insight into gluonic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-08-26 Sean Dobbs

Light Meson Spectroscopy with GlueX and Beyond

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab was specifically designed for precision studies of the light-meson spectrum. For this purpose, a photon beam with energies up to 12 GeV is directed onto a liquid hydrogen target contained within a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-23 Alexander Austregesilo

Accessing glue through photoproduction measurements at GlueX

Photoproduction experiments are a key tool in the investigation of the spectrum of hadronic states and the way gluons contribute to this spectrum. The GlueX experiment, located at Jefferson Lab, features a linearly polarized tagged photon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-13 Peter Pauli

GlueX: The Search for Gluonic Excitations at Jefferson Laboratory

One of the unanswered and most fundamental questions in physics regards the nature of the confinement mechanism of quarks and gluons in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Exotic hybrid mesons manifest gluonic degrees of freedom and their…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 D. S. Carman

Light-Meson Spectroscopy at GlueX

GlueX at Jefferson Lab aims to study the light meson spectrum with an emphasis on the search for light hybrid mesons. To this end, a linearly-polarized $9\,$GeV photon beam impinges on a hydrogen target contained within a hermetic detector…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-01 A. Austregesilo

A study of meson and baryon decays to strange final states with GlueX in Hall D (A proposal to the 39th Jefferson Lab Program Advisory Committee)

The primary motivation of the GlueX experiment is to search for and ultimately study the pattern of gluonic excitations in the meson spectrum produced in gamma p collisions. Recent lattice QCD calculations predict a rich spectrum of hybrid…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-10-17 The GlueX Collaboration , M. Dugger , B. Ritchie , E. Anassontzis , P. Ioannou , C. Kourkoumeli , G. Voulgaris , N. Jarvis , W. Levine , P. Mattione , C. A. Meyer , R. Schumacher , P. Collins , F. Klein , D. Sober , D. Doughty , A. Barnes , R. Jones , J. McIntyre , F. Mokaya , B. Pratt , I. Senderovich , W. Boeglin , L. Guo , P. Khetarpal , E. Pooser , J. Reinhold , H. Al Ghoul , S. Capstick , V. Crede , P. Eugenio , A. Ostrovidov , N. Sparks , A. Tsaris , D. Ireland , K. Livingston , D. Bennett , J. Bennett , J. Frye , J. Leckey , R. Mitchell , K. Moriya , M. R. Shepherd , A. Szczepaniak , R. Miskimen , M. Williams , P. Ambrozewicz , A. Gasparian , R. Pedroni , T. Black , L. Gan , J. Dudek , F. Close , E. Swanson , S. Denisov , G. Huber , S. Katsaganis , D. Kolybaba , G. Lolos , Z. Papandreou , A. Semenov , I. Semenova , M. Tahani , W. Brooks , S. Kuleshov , A. Toro , F. Barbosa , E. Chudakov , H. Egiyan , M. Ito , D. Lawrence , L. Pentchev , Y. Qiang , E. S. Smith , A. Somov , S. Taylor , T. Whitlatch , E. Wolin , B. Zihlmann

Exploring Photoproduction with the GlueX Experiment

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab (Newport News, VA USA) is designed to explore the spectrum of mesons up to about 3 GeV. We present results on the production of light-quark resonances with linearly polarized photons. These results…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-30 Matthew Shepherd

An initial study of mesons and baryons containing strange quarks with GlueX

The primary motivation of the GlueX experiment is to search for and ultimately study the pattern of gluonic excitations in the meson spectrum produced in $\gamma p$ collisions. Recent lattice QCD calculations predict a rich spectrum of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-05-08 The GlueX Collaboration , A. AlekSejevs , S. Barkanova , M. Dugger , B. Ritchie , I. Senderovich , E. Anassontzis , P. Ioannou , C. Kourkoumeli , G. Voulgaris , N. Jarvis , W. Levine , P. Mattione , W. McGinley , C. A. Meyer , R. Schumacher , M. Staib , P. Collins , F. Klein , D. Sober , D. Doughty , A. Barnes , R. Jones , J. McIntyre , F. Mokaya , B. Pratt , W. Boeglin , L. Guo , P. Khetarpal , E. Pooser , J. Reinhold , H. Al Ghoul , S. Capstick , V. Crede , P. Eugenio , A. Ostrovidov , N. Sparks , A. Tsaris , D. Ireland , K. Livingston , D. Bennett , J. Bennett , J. Frye , M. Lara , J. Leckey , R. Mitchell , K. Moriya , M. R. Shepherd , A. Szczepaniak , R. Miskimen , A. Mushkarenkov , B. Guegan , J. Hardin , J. Stevens , M. Williams , A. Ponosov , S. Somov , C. Salgado , P. Ambrozewicz , A. Gasparian , R. Pedroni , T. Black , L. Gan , S. Dobbs , K. K. Seth , A. Tomaradze , J. Dudek , F. Close , E. Swanson , S. Denisov , G. Huber , D. Kolybaba , S. Krueger , G. Lolos , Z. Papandreou , A. Semenov , I. Semenova , M. Tahani , W. Brooks , H. Hakobyan , S. Kuleshov , O. Soto , A. Toro , I. Vega , R. White , F. Barbosa , E. Chudakov , H. Egiyan , M. Ito , D. Lawrence , M. McCaughan , M. Pennington , L. Pentchev , Y. Qiang , E. S. Smith , A. Somov , S. Taylor , T. Whitlatch , E. Wolin , B. Zihlmann

Spin-Density Matrix Elements for Vector Meson Photoproduction at GlueX

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab aims to study the light meson spectrum with an emphasis on the search for hybrid mesons. To this end, a linearly-polarized $9\,$GeV photon beam impinges on a hydrogen target contained within a detector…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-08-26 A. Austregesilo

The GlueX Beamline and Detector

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab has been designed to study photoproduction reactions with a 9-GeV linearly polarized photon beam. The energy and arrival time of beam photons are tagged using a scintillator hodoscope and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-17 S. Adhikari , C. S. Akondi , H. Al Ghoul , A. Ali , M. Amaryan , E. G. Anassontzis , A. Austregesilo , F. Barbosa , J. Barlow , A. Barnes , E. Barriga , R. Barsotti , T. D. Beattie , J. Benesch , V. V. Berdnikov , G. Biallas , T. Black , W. Boeglin , P. Brindza , W. J. Briscoe , T. Britton , J. Brock , W. K. Brooks , B. E. Cannon , C. Carlin , D. S. Carman , T. Carstens , N. Cao , O. Chernyshov , E. Chudakov , S. Cole , O. Cortes , W. D. Crahen , V. Crede , M. M. Dalton , T. Daniels , A. Deur , C. Dickover , S. Dobbs , A. Dolgolenko , R. Dotel , M. Dugger , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Dzierba , H. Egiyan , T. Erbora , A. Ernst , P. Eugenio , C. Fanelli , S. Fegan , A. M. Foda , J. Foote , J. Frye , S. Furletov , L. Gan , A. Gasparian , A. Gerasimov , N. Gevorgyan , C. Gleason , K. Goetzen , A. Goncalves V. S. Goryachev , L. Guo , H. Hakobyan , A. Hamdi , J. Hardin , C. L. Henschel , G. M. Huber , C. Hutton , A. Hurley , P. Ioannou , D. G. Ireland , M. M. Ito , N. S. Jarvis , R. T. Jones , V. Kakoyan , S. Katsaganis , G. Kalicy , M. Kamel , C. D. Keith , F. J. Klein , R. Kliemt , D. Kolybaba , C. Kourkoumelis , S. T. Krueger , S. Kuleshov , I. Larin , D. Lawrence , J. P. Leckey , D. I. Lersch , B. D. Leverington , W. I. Levine , W. Li , B. Liu , K. Livingston , G. J. Lolos , V. Lyubovitskij , D. Mack , H. Marukyan , P. T. Mattione , V. Matveev , M. McCaughan , M. McCracken , W. McGinley , J. McIntyre , D. Meekins , R. Mendez , C. A. Meyer , R. Miskimen , R. E. Mitchell , F. Mokaya , K. Moriya , F. Nerling , L. Ng , H. Ni , A. I. Ostrovidov , Z. Papandreou , M. Patsyuk , C. Paudel , P. Pauli , R. Pedroni , L. Pentchev , K. J. Peters , W. Phelps , J. Pierce , E. Pooser , V. Popov , B. Pratt , Y. Qiang , N. Qin , V. Razmyslovich , J. Reinhold , B. G. Ritchie , J. Ritman , L. Robison , D. Romanov , C. Romero , C. Salgado , N. Sandoval , T. Satogata , A. M. Schertz , S. Schadmand , A. Schick , R. A. Schumacher , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , A. Yu. Semenov , I. A. Semenova , K. K. Seth , X. Shen , M. R. Shepherd , E. S. Smith , D. I. Sober , A. Somov , S. Somov , O. Soto , N. Sparks , M. J. Staib , C. Stanislav , J. R. Stevens , J. Stewart , I. I. Strakovsky , B. C. L. Summner , K. Suresh , V. V. Tarasov , S. Taylor , L. A. Teigrob , A. Teymurazyan , A. Thiel , I. Tolstukhin , A. Tomaradze , A. Toro , A. Tsaris , Y. Van Haarlem , G. Vasileiadis , I. Vega , G. Visser , G. Voulgaris , N. K. Walford , D. Werthmüller , T. Whitlatch , N. Wickramaarachchi , M. Williams , E. Wolin , T. Xiao , Y. Yang , J. Zarling , Z. Zhang , Q. Zhou , X. Zhou , B. Zihlmann

Experimental Status of Exotic Mesons and the GlueX Experiment

One of the unanswered and most fundamental questions in physics regards the nature of the confinement mechanism of quarks and gluons in QCD. Exotic hybrid mesons manifest gluonic degrees of freedom and their spectroscopy will provide the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel S. Carman

The strangeness program at GlueX

The GlueX experiment located at Jefferson Lab studies the spectrum of hadrons using photoproduction on a LH$_2$ target in a wide variety of final states. With its detector system capable of measuring neutral and charged final state…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-30 Peter Pauli

DIRC, the Internally Reflecting Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector for BABAR

The DIRC is a new type of Cherenkov imaging device that will be used for the first time in the BABAR detector at the asymmetric B-factory, PEP-II. It is based on total internal reflection and uses long, rectangular bars made from synthetic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 DIRC Collaboration