| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 66, 2014
INPC 2013 – International Nuclear Physics Conference
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| Article Number | 06011 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Hadron Structure | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146606011 | |
| Published online | 20 March 2014 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146606011
Exotic Hybrid Meson Spectroscopy with the GlueX detector at JLab
1 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
a e-mail: davidl@jlab.org
Published online: 20 March 2014
The GlueX experiment[1] is scheduled to begin taking data in 2015. The goal is to discover evidence for the existence of exotic hybrid mesons and to map out their spectrum in the light quark sector. Recent theoretical developments using Lattice QCD [2] predict exotic hybrid states in a mass range accessible using the newly upgraded 12GeV electron accelerator at Jefferson Lab. 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. The experiment will use 9 GeV linearly polarized photons produced via coherent Bremsstrahlung to produce the exotic hybrids. The decay products will be detected in the solenoid-based GlueX detector currently under construction at Jefferson Lab. The status of the GlueX experiment including detector parameters will be presented along with theoretical motivation for the experiment.
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