Abstract: The primary motivation of the GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab experimental Hall D is the search for light hybrid mesons that are quark-antiquark pairs coupled to gluonic field excitation. GlueX uses a 9 GeV linearly-polarized real photon beam incident on LH2 target and a solenoid based, large-acceptance detector. The facility completed the initial phase of data taking in 2018 and has many analysis efforts well underway. These studies
include understanding the production mechanisms and potential final states of interest for well-established hadronic states at GlueX beam energies, where little data is available from other photoproduction experiments. There are also ongoing searches for the π 1 (1600) hybrid meson with exotic J PC = 1 - + . Contributions of resonances with different spins in the mass spectrum of the η (‘) π system are studied via partial wave analysis, where we use a
newly developed model for photo-production via linearly polarized beam. The status of these efforts will be reported.

*This work was partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science,
Office of Nuclear Physics under contracts DE-SC0013620 and DE-AC05-06OR23177.

Short Bio: I have been a member of Jefferson Lab (JLab) (Newport News, VA) user community since 2012. As a trainee-researcher at Yerevan Physics Institute I have worked on the construction of the aerogel Cherenkov detector for SHMS magnetic spectrometer in experimental Hall C. During my PhD program at Old Dominion University, I worked closely with the ODU-MIT-Tel Aviv research group under the joint supervision of L. Weinstein and O. Hen and have analyzed data from the CLAS6 spectrometer at JLab Hall B for Two nucleon Short Range Correlations (SRC) studies of light nuclei. My thesis project used electron scattering data from CLAS6 to test the neutrino energy reconstruction methods and the neutrino event generators used in neutrino oscillation experiments. I have presented this analysis during 2018 JLab User Group Meeting Poster Competition and have won the First-place prize. I have also been awarded Jefferson Science Associates Graduate Fellowship award 2018-2019.

Since January of 2020 I am a postdoc at FIU working with Werner Boeglin, who currently is involved in Hall C (nucleon momentum distributions in Deuteron) and Hall D (GlueX) related projects. The primary goal of GlueX experiment is the search for hybrid mesons with exotic quantum numbers. The main focus of my research is the search for 𝜋 1 exotic mesons via amplitude analysis of η ‘ π 0 system.