28 May 2017 to 2 June 2017
Queen's University
America/Toronto timezone
Welcome to the 2017 CAP Congress! / Bienvenue au congrès de l'ACP 2017!

First Physics Results from the GlueX Experiment

30 May 2017, 14:15
15m
Botterell B147 (Queen's University)

Botterell B147

Queen's University

CLOSED - Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant) Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN) T3-5 Hadronic Structure (DNP) | Structure hadronique (DPN)

Speaker

Zisis Papandreou (University of Regina)

Description

The goal of the GlueX experiment is to carry out a definitive mapping of states in the light meson sector. The primary search is focused on 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 Hall-D facility at Jefferson Lab, employs linearly polarized photons in the 8-9 GeV range and is now in its initial physics data taking phase. The key features of this compelling physics program will be presented with emphasis on the first results from the beam asymmetry for light pseudoscalar mesons.

Primary author

Zisis Papandreou (University of Regina)

Presentation materials