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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

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

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

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

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

Performance of the Pair Spectrometer in Hall D at Jefferson Lab

This article describes the performance of the pair spectrometer installed in experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab and its operation in multiple experiments with the GlueX detector. The primary purpose of the pair spectrometer is the precise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-13 Alexander Somov , Sergey Somov , Vladimir V. Berdnikov

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

A measurement of the energy and timing resolution of GlueX Forward Calorimeter using an electron beam

The performance of the GlueX Forward Calorimeter was studied using a small version of the detector and a variable energy electron beam derived from the Hall B tagger at Jefferson Lab. For electron energies from 110 MeV to 260 MeV, which are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-15 Kei Moriya , John P. Leckey , Matthew R. Shepherd , Kevin Bauer , Daniel Bennett , John Frye , Juan Gonzalez , Scott J. Henderson , David Lawrence , Ryan Mitchell , Elton S. Smith , Paul Smith , Alexander Somov , Hovanes Egiyan

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

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

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

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

Construction and Performance of the Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the GlueX Experiment

The barrel calorimeter is part of the new spectrometer installed in Hall D at Jefferson Lab for the GlueX experiment. The calorimeter was installed in 2013, commissioned in 2014 and has been operating routinely since early 2015. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-01 Tegan Beattie , Ahmed Foda , Colleen Henschel , S Katsaganis , Shaun Krueger , George Lolos , Zisis Papandreou , E. L. Plummer , Irina Semenova , Andrei Semenov , Fernando Barbosa , Eugene Chudakov , Mark Dalton , David Lawrence , Yi Qiang , Nicholas Sandoval , Elton Smith , Christopher Stanislav , Justin Stevens , Simon Taylor , Timothy Whitlatch , Benedikt Zihlmann , William Levine , William McGinley , Curtis Meyer , Michael Staib , Efstratios Anassontzis , Christina Kourkoumelis , Georgios Vasileiadis , George Voulgaris , William Brooks , Hayk Hakobyan , Sergey Kuleshov , R. Rojas , Christian Romero Vieyra , Orlando Soto Sandoval , Alam Toro Salas , Juan Vega Vergara , Matthew Shepherd

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

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

Using machine learning to separate hadronic and electromagnetic interactions in the GlueX forward calorimeter

The GlueX forward calorimeter is an array of 2800 lead glass modules that was constructed to detect photons produced in the decays of hadrons. A background to this process originates from hadronic interactions in the calorimeter, which, in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-05-28 Rebecca Barsotti , Matthew R. Shepherd

The GlueX Start Counter Detector

The design, simulation, fabrication, calibration, and performance of the GlueX Start Counter detector is described. The Start Counter was designed to operate at integrated rates of up to 9 MHz with a timing resolution in the range of 500 to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-11 Eric Pooser , Fernando Barbosa , Werner Boeglin , Charles Hutton , Mark Ito , Mahmoud Kamel , Puneet Khetarpal , Anthony Llodra , Joseph Sandoval , Simon Taylor , Timothy Whitlatch , Stephanie Worthington , Carlos Yero , Benedikt Zihlmann

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

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