2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Jun 13 – 19, 2015
University of Alberta
America/Edmonton timezone
Welcome to the 2015 CAP Congress! / Bienvenue au congrès de l'ACP 2015!

Commissioning of the GlueX Experiment

Jun 18, 2015, 8:45 AM
30m
CCIS L1-140 (University of Alberta)

CCIS L1-140

University of Alberta

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)

Speaker

Prof. Zisis Papandreou (Uinversity of Regina)

Description

The primary goal of the GlueX experiment is to conduct a definitive mapping of states in the light meson sector with an emphasis on searching for exotic hybrid mesons as evidence of gluonic excitations, in an effort to understand the phenomenon of confinement in Quantum Chromo Dynamics. The experiment, housed in the new Hall-D facility at Jefferson Lab following its accelerator upgrade to 12~GeV, is now in its commissioning and calibration phase with data taking expected in 2016. The key features of this compelling physics program will be presented together with an overview of early performance of the detector systems, focusing on the electromagnetic barrel calorimeter (BCAL), built at the University of Regina. The BCAL is a spaghetti calorimeter'', consisting of layers of corrugated lead sheets, interleaved with planes of 1-mm-diameter, double-clad, scintillating fibres, bonded in the lead grooves using optical epoxy. The detector will consist of 48 trapezoidal modules and will be readout using 3,840 large-area Multi-Photon Pixel counter arrays.

Primary author

Prof. Zisis Papandreou (Uinversity of Regina)

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