Experiments in Hall B will use the unique ability of CLAS to work with a tagged beam of real photons, and in the near future, polarized beam is expected.
Looking at the PAC (Program Advisory Committee) [8] data (table 2.1), we see that the Hall B will mostly study the property of baryonic resonances, mesons as well as strangeness production. CLAS has more experiments than other Halls, because several experiments can run at the same time, relevant data for each experiment being determined when analyzing.
| Topic | Hall A | Hall B | Hall C |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nucleons and Mesons Form Factors and Sum Rules | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Few Body Nuclear Properties | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Properties of Nuclei | 4 | 8 | 3 |
| N* and Meson Properties | 3 | 20 | 2 |
| Strange Quarks | 2 | 7 | 3 |
The Hall B will cover experiments in the area of elementary and nuclear excitation of N* resonances, spin structure functions, hadronic final states in inclusive electron scattering on nuclei, and elementary and nuclear hyperon production and decays.
The first experiments should start in December 1997.