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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First Results from The GlueX Experiment

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab ran with its first commissioning beam in late 2014 and the spring of 2015. Data were collected on both plastic and liquid hydrogen targets, and much of the detector has been commissioned. All of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-05-30 The GlueX Collaboration , H. Al Ghoul , E. G. Anassontzis , F. Barbosa , A. Barnes , T. D. Beattie , D. W. Bennett , V. V. Berdnikov , T. Black , W. Boeglin , W. K. Brooks , B. Cannon , O. Chernyshov , E. Chudakov , V. Crede , M. M. Dalton , A. Deur , S. Dobbs , A. Dolgolenko , M. Dugger , H. Egiyan , P. Eugenio , A. M. Foda , J. Frye , S. Furletov , L. Gan , A. Gasparian , A. Gerasimov , N. Gevorgyan , V. S. Goryachev , B. Guegan , L. Guo , H. Hakobyan , H. Hakobyan2 , J. Hardin , G. M. Huber , D. Ireland , M. M. Ito , N. S. Jarvis , R. T. Jones , V. Kakoyan , M. Kamel , F. J. Klein , C. Kourkoumeli , S. Kuleshov , M. Lara , I. Larin , D. Lawrence , J. Leckey , W. I. Levine , K. Livingston , G. J. Lolos , D. Mack , P. T. Mattione , V. Matveev , M. McCaughan , W. McGinley , J. McIntyre , R. Mendez , C. A. Meyer , R. Miskimen , R. E. Mitchell , F. Mokaya , K. Moriya , G. Nigmatkulov , N. Ochoa , A. I. Ostrovidov , Z. Papandreou , R. Pedroni , M. Pennington , L. Pentchev , A. Ponosov , E. Pooser , B. Pratt , Y. Qiang , J. Reinhold , B. G. Ritchie , L. Robison , D. Romanov , C. Salgado , R. A. Schumacher , A. Yu. Semenov , I. A. Semenova , I. Senderovich , K. K. Seth , M. R. Shepherd , E. S. Smith , D. I. Sober , A. Somov , S. Somov , O. Soto , N. Sparks , M. J. Staib , J. R. Stevens , A. Subedi , V. Tarasov , S. Taylor , I. Tolstukhin , A. Tomaradze , A. Toro , A. Tsaris , G. Vasileiadis , I. Vega , G. Voulgaris , N. K. Walford , T. Whitlatch , M. Williams , E. Wolin , T. Xiao , J. Zarling , B. Zihlmann

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

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

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

Photoproduction of the $\Lambda$(1520) hyperon with a 9 GeV photon beam at GlueX

The GlueX experiment is located at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News, VA, USA. It features a hermetic 4$\pi$ detector with excellent tracking and calorimetry capabilities. Its 9 GeV linearly polarized…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-05-04 Peter Pauli

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

Amplitude Analysis of $\omega\pi^0$ Photoproduction at GlueX

Excited meson states can often lie hidden within mass spectra beneath more dominant resonances, making it difficult to extract their physical properties. We can unveil these states through amplitude analysis, which disentangles the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-11-18 Kevin Scheuer

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

Beam Asymmetries ($\Sigma$) for $\pi^0$, $\eta$ and $\eta'$ in Photoproduction at GlueX

The GlueX experiment is a photoproduction experiment located at Thomas Jefferson National Lab in Newport News, Virginia. GlueX is capable of making beam asymmetry ($\Sigma$) measurements using a tagged, linearly-polarized 9 GeV photon beam…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-08-26 William McGinley , Tegan Beattie

Measurement of Spin-Density Matrix Elements in $\rho(770)$ Production with a Linearly Polarized Photon Beam at $E_\gamma = 8.2\,-\,8.8\,\text{GeV}$

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab studies photoproduction of mesons using linearly polarized $8.5\,\text{GeV}$ photons impinging on a hydrogen target which is contained within a detector with near-complete coverage for charged and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-07-10 GlueX Collaboration , S. Adhikari , F. Afzal , C. S. Akondi , M. Albrecht , M. Amaryan , V. Arroyave , A. Asaturyan , A. Austregesilo , Z. Baldwin , F. Barbosa , J. Barlow , E. Barriga , R. Barsotti , T. D. Beattie , V. V. Berdnikov , T. Black , W. Boeglin , W. J. Briscoe , T. Britton , W. K. Brooks , D. Byer , E. Chudakov , P. L. Cole , O. Cortes , V. Crede , M. M. Dalton , D. Darulis , A. Deur , S. Dobbs , A. Dolgolenko , R. Dotel , M. Dugger , R. Dzhygadlo , D. Ebersole , M. Edo , H. Egiyan , T. Erbora , P. Eugenio , A. Fabrizi , C. Fanelli , S. Fang , S. Fegan , J. Fitches , A. M. Foda , S. Furletov , L. Gan , H. Gao , A. Gardner , A. Gasparian , C. Gleason , K. Goetzen , V. S. Goryachev , B. Grube , J. Guo , L. Guo , T. J. Hague , H. Hakobyan , J. Hernandez , N. D. Hoffman , D. Hornidge , G. Hou , G. M. Huber , P. Hurck , A. Hurley , W. Imoehl , D. G. Ireland , M. M. Ito , I. Jaegle , N. S. Jarvis , T. Jeske , R. T. Jones , V. Kakoyan , G. Kalicy , V. Khachatryan , M. Khatchatryan , C. Kourkoumelis , A. LaDuke , I. Larin , D. Lawrence , D. I. Lersch , H. Li , B. Liu , K. Livingston , G. J. Lolos , L. Lorenti , V. Lyubovitskij , R. Ma , D. Mack , A. Mahmood , H. Marukyan , V. Matveev , M. McCaughan , M. McCracken , C. A. Meyer , R. Miskimen , R. E. Mitchell , K. Mizutani , V. Neelamana , L. Ng , E. Nissen , S. Orešić , A. I. Ostrovidov , Z. Papandreou , C. Paudel , R. Pedroni , L. Pentchev , K. J. Peters , E. Prather , S. Rakshit , J. Reinhold , A. Remington , B. G. Ritchie , J. Ritman , G. Rodriguez , D. Romanov , K. Saldana , C. Salgado , S. Schadmand , A. M. Schertz , K. Scheuer , A. Schick , A. Schmidt , R. A. Schumacher , J. Schwiening , P. Sharp , X. Shen , M. R. Shepherd , A. Smith , E. S. Smith , D. I. Sober , A. Somov , S. Somov , J. R. Stevens , I. I. Strakovsky , B. Sumner , K. Suresh , V. V. Tarasov , S. Taylor , A. Teymurazyan , A. Thiel , T. Viducic , T. Whitlatch , N. Wickramaarachchi , M. Williams , Y. Wunderlich , B. Yu , J. Zarling , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhao , J. Zhou , X. Zhou , B. Zihlmann

The GlueX DIRC Project

The GlueX experiment was designed to search for and study the pattern of gluonic excitations in the meson spectrum produced through photoproduction reactions at a new tagged photon beam facility in Hall D at Jefferson Laboratory. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Justin Stevens , Fernando Barbosa , Jason Bessuille , Eugene Chudakov , Roman Dzhygadlo , Cristiano Fanelli , John Frye , John Hardin , Jim Kelsey , Maria Patsyuk , Carsten Schwartz , Jochen Schwiening , Matthew Shepherd , Tim Whitlatch , Michael Williams

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 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