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Study of the Reaction \(\gamma p \rightarrow \eta \eta' p\)

ORAL

Abstract

The motivation behind the GlueX experiment is to search for hybrid mesons. There is strong evidence for the exotic \(\pi_{1}(1600)\) which has been observed in \(\eta'\pi\). The \(\pi_{1}(1600)\) has an isoscalar partner, the \(\eta_{1}\), which can possibly be observed in the \(\eta'\eta\) channel. The preliminary analysis presented here considers photoproduction of the final state \(\eta'\eta\) which decays to 4\(\gamma\pi^{+}\pi^{-}\). The experiment uses a beam of linearly polarized photons with a peak near 9 GeV incident on a hydrogen target that produces these particles. General features of the data including data selection with a focus on removing backgrounds due to wrong photon combinations will be shown. Mass spectra and intermediate states will be also be presented.

Authors

  • Jason Barlow

    Florida State University