Early Results from GlueX
COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited
Abstract
The GlueX experiment, located in Jefferson Lab's Hall D, provides a unique capability to search for hybrid mesons in photoproduction, utilizing a high-energy, linearly polarized photon beam. The initial phase of data taking, completed in 2018, provides unprecedented statistics to study the production mechanisms of known hadrons as well as search for new states in the hadron spectrum, including those with gluonic degrees of freedom. Early results from this dataset will be presented, along with progress towards higher statistics datasets with enhanced particle identification to study mesons containing strange quarks.
*This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Early Career Award contract DE-SC0018224.
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