Development of the Tagger Microscope & Analysis of Spin Density Matrix Elements in gamma-p -> phi-p for the GlueX Experiment

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Over the years, there have been many people who helped contribute to this work, and I will attempt to briefly list them here. To those not listed, I greatly appreciate the help you gave me. I would like to acknowledge my research group, starting with my advisor, Dr. Richard Jones, for providing me with such a wide range of opportunities from which to learn and showing me what the field has to offer. My group mates Fridah Mokaya, Brendan Pratt, Igor Senderovich, and Jim McIntyre helped me with everything from hardware to physics analyses by giving me excellent feedback, advice, encouragement, and many fond memories to look back upon. I would like to thank Ann Marie Carroll for all of her hard work in constructing and testing the tagger microscope. Additionally, I would like to thank all of the undergraduates who helped in the lab, specifically Ben Willis, Liana Hotte, and Jon Kulakofsky, who I worked closely with during the construction of the tagger microscope.Furthermore, I would like to acknowledge the Jefferson Lab staff who helped me grow as a physicist, particularly Paul Mattione,

Calibrations for charged particle tracking and measurements of w photoproduction with the GlueX detector

“…The timing resolution of the TAGM measured relative to the accelerator RF signal during the Spring 2016 run period is shown in Figure 2.8. For more details on construction and performance of the TAGM, see [19].…”

“…The resolution of the detector for π 0 reconstruction can be found in Figure 2. 19. More details of the detector design and construction can be found in [16].…”