Speaker
Mr
Elton Smith
(JLab)
Description
The GlueX experiment aims to study the gluonic degrees of freedom in QCD by mapping the light meson spectrum with an emphasis on searching for and studying light hybrid mesons. Hybrid mesons, and in particular exotic hybrid mesons, provide the ideal laboratory for testing QCD in the confinement regime since these mesons explicitly manifest the gluonic degrees of freedom. GlueX uses a solenoid-based detector and the new 12-GeV electron beam at Jefferson Lab to produce a 9-GeV beam of linearly polarized photons to study the photoproduction of light mesons. We will present results from our commissioning run, which already represents an order-of-magnitude statistical increase over the very limited existing world data.
Primary author
Mr
Elton Smith
(JLab)
