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<p>Hello everyone,</p>
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<p>Below is a draft of an abstract, which I am going to submit to
the</p>
<p>SESAPS meeting in November (I am planning to submit it at the</p>
<p>end of this week).</p>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p> Sasha<br>
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<span>Prospects for Studying Photoproduction on Nuclear Targets<br>
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<div>with the GlueX Detector<br>
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<div>The GlueX detector in the experimental Hall D at Jefferson
Lab<br>
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<div>was designed to search for gluonic excitations in the spectra<br>
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<div>of light mesons using photon beams. The detector provides a
unique<br>
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<div>capability to study photoproduction on nuclear targets and
extend<br>
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<div>the physics potential beyond the main spectroscopy
program.<br>
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<div>A recently approved experiment in Hall D will study
short-range<br>
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<div>correlated (SRC) pairing of nucleons within nuclei and
search<br>
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<div>for Color Transparency (CT) at large momentum transfer. SRC
has never<br>
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<div>been studied in photoproduction before. GlueX measurements
will<br>
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<div>provide a complementary check of the reaction mechanism to
electron<br>
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<div>and proton scattering. Measurement of the Color Transparency<br>
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<div>will verify recent theoretical calculations for GlueX beam<br>
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<div>energies and will decisively test the onset of CT.<br>
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<div>Several other physics topics are considered for GlueX, such
as the study of<br>
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<div>the hadronic structure of the photon by measuring nuclear
transparency<br>
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<div>of vector mesons, and extraction of the cross section of
longitudinally<br>
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<div>polarized omega mesons on nucleons for the first time.
Measurement of<br>
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<div>nuclear transparency in a wide energy range is important for<br>
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<div>understanding results from other experiments and will provide
a<br>
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<div>sensitive probe to the degree of photon shadowing in nuclear
matter.<br>
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<div>I will give an overview of the proposed physics program and<br>
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<div>discuss GlueX plans for the future.<br>
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