Physics Prospects with GlueX

The new experiment GlueX is being currently constructed at Jefferson Lab. The experiment was designed to search for hybrid mesons with exotic-quantum-numbers using a beam of linearly polarized photons incident on a liquid hydrogen target. We will discuss the discovery potential of the GlueX experiment and briefly overview its physics program. GlueX is a new experiment at Jefferson Lab. whose physics program is intended to improve our knowledge of strong interactions. The main goal of the experiment is to search for gluonic excitations in photoproduction. The experiment is expected to collect a data sample a few order of magnitudes larger than all existing photoproduction data. The physics topics of the experiment spans from light meson spectroscopy to Primakoff production of pseudoscalar mesons. The construction of the experiment has started in 2009 and the commissioning stage is expected to be finished in 2015