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hep-ex2026

Hadron Physics Opportunities at FAIR

J. G. Messchendorp, F. Nerling, P. Achenbach +103

This White Paper outlines a coordinated, decade-spanning programme of hadron and QCD studies anchored at the GSI/FAIR accelerator complex. Profiting from intense deuteron, proton a…

hep-ex2023

Search for axion-like particles through nuclear Primakoff production using the GlueX detector

J. R. Pybus, T. Kolar, B. Devkota +40

We report on the results of the first search for the production of axion-like particles (ALP) via Primakoff production on nuclear targets using the GlueX detector. This search uses…

nucl-ex2025

First Measurement of Polarized Photoproduction Cross Section

GlueX Collaboration, F. Afzal, C. S. Akondi +149

We measure for the first time the differential photoproduction cross section of the meson at an average photon beam energy of 8.5~GeV, using data with an integ…

nucl-ex2024

Measurement of the J/ photoproduction cross section over the full near-threshold kinematic region

GlueX Collaboration, S. Adhikari, F. Afzal +150

We report the total and differential cross sections for photoproduction with the large acceptance GlueX spectrometer for photon beam energies from the threshold at 8.2~GeV u…

nucl-ex2024

Measurement of Spin-Density Matrix Elements in Production with a Linearly Polarized Photon Beam at

GlueX Collaboration, S. Adhikari, F. Afzal +150

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab studies photoproduction of mesons using linearly polarized photons impinging on a hydrogen target which is contained within…

nucl-ex2026

ePIC Early Science Report

D. Abbott, N. Abdelrahman, S. Abhijit +781

This Early Science Report from the ePIC Collaboration outlines the compelling physics program achievable during the first years of operation of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), pri…

nucl-ex2024

First measurement using elliptically polarized photons of the double-polarization observable for and

A2 Collaboration, F. Afzal, K. Spieker +74

We report the measurement of the helicity asymmetry for the and final states using, for the first time, an elliptically polarized photon beam in combination wit…

nucl-ex2025

Upper Limit on the Photoproduction Cross Section of the Spin-Exotic

GlueX Collaboration, F. Afzal, C. S. Akondi +147

The spin-exotic hybrid meson is predicted to have a large decay rate to the final state. Using 76.6~pb of data collected with the GlueX detector, we…

nucl-ex2024

First Measurement of Near- and Sub-Threshold Photoproduction off Nuclei

J. R. Pybus, L. Ehinger, T. Kolar +65

We report on the first measurement of photoproduction from nuclei in the photon energy range of to GeV, extending above and below the photoproduction threshold in…

nucl-ex2024

Measurement of Spin-Density Matrix Elements in photoproduction

F. Afzal, C. S. Akondi, M. Albrecht +146

We measure the spin-density matrix elements (SDMEs) of the in the photoproduction reaction with the GlueX experiment in Hall D at Jeffer…

hep-ex2026

Baryon-antibaryon photoproduction cross sections off the proton

GlueX Collaboration, F. Afzal, M. Albrecht +137

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab has observed and, for the first time, and photoproduction from a proton target at photon energies up to 11.6 G…

nucl-ex2025

Measurement of the Total Compton Scattering Cross Section between 6.5 and 11 GeV

GlueX Collaboration, F. Afzal, C. S. Akondi +148

The total cross section for Compton scattering off atomic electrons, $γ+e\rightarrowγ'+e'$, was measured using photons with energies between 6.5 and 11.1 GeV incident on a Be…

nucl-ex2024

White Paper on Polarized Target Studies with Real Photons in Hall D

F. Afzal, M. M. Dalton, A. Deur +5

This white paper summarizes the Workshop on Polarized Target Studies with Real Photons in Hall D at Jefferson Lab, that took place on 21 February 2024. The Workshop included about…

nucl-ex2023

Strong Interaction Physics at the Luminosity Frontier with 22 GeV Electrons at Jefferson Lab

A. Accardi, P. Achenbach, D. Adhikari +441

This document presents the initial scientific case for upgrading the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab (JLab) to 22 GeV. It is the result of a…