Meson Production Experiments with Electromagnetic Beams using CLAS

Abstract

The CEBAF Large Acceptnace Spectrometer (CLAS) has been taking production data since February, 1998. It takes data for many reactions simultaneously with moderate resolution. Data has been taken for a variety of conditions with polarized and unpolarized beam and target. Preliminary results of the initial experiments run by the CLAS collaboration are shown. The connection with the study of N* resonances is emphasized.

6 pages incl. figures, invited talk at Meson Nucleon Conference (MENU99); Zuoz, Switz, Aug. 1999