Invited Talk at the Cascades Workshop, Newport News VA, December 1-3, 2005
Richard T. Jones
University of Connecticut
One of the most striking predictions of the theory of the strong nuclear force is that new families of particles should exist which have not been seen before. Precise theoretical predictions for the masses and lifetimes of these particles are not here yet, but evidence is mounting that one class of these particles, so-called hybrid mesons, should lie within reach of photoproduction experiments at Jefferson Lab. The GlueX experiment will exploit this opportunity with a high-intensity polarized photon beam of energy 9 GeV and a hermetic detector with excellent resolution and nearly 4π acceptance for charged and neutral particles.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0303512.