Google Colaboratory for Partial Wave Analysis at GlueX

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Laboratory aims to study the meson spectrum produced from a high-energy beam of photons incident on a liquid hydrogen target and perform amplitude analysis to identify the intermediary particles produced by the collisions.  This research explored using Google Colaboratory (Colab), a Jupyter Notebook environment provided by Google, to do partial wave analysis (PWA) for the GlueX experiment. Using Colab, the reaction γp → ωπ⁰p was studied and a PWA was performed without the use of a high-performance cluster. The PWA determines the quantum mechanical amplitudes that contribute to this reaction by modeling the intensity distribution as a function of the decay angles of the produced mesons. Initial results from this PWA will be presented, demonstrating that analysis such as this can be done with Colab instead of a high-performance cluster. We hope the programs created for this project will make PWA more accessible to those with limited coding experience.