The GlueX Experiment: Recent Results and Future Plans

Understand

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 photoproduction experiment utilizing a linearly polarized photon beam at $E_\gamma=$ 8-9 GeV and a large acceptance spectrometer.
• The experiment has already collected orders of magnitude more data than previous experiments at similar energies.
• We show results on asymmetry measurements in the production of pseudoscalars mesons, which refine our understanding of production mechanisms in photoproduction at our energies.