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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strange Hadron Spectroscopy with a Secondary KL Beam at GlueX

We propose to create a secondary beam of neutral kaons in Hall D at Jefferson Lab to be used with the GlueX experimental setup for strange hadron spectroscopy. A flux on the order of 3 x 10^4 KL/s will allow a broad range of measurements to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-07-24 M. J. Amaryan , M. Bashkanov , J. Ritman , J. R. Stevens , I. Strakovsky , GlueX Collaboration

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

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

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