F. Barbosa²⁹, J. Barlow^10,28, E. Barriga¹⁰, R. Barsotti¹⁸, D. Barton²⁶, V. Baturin²⁶, V. V. Berdnikov²⁹, A. Berger¹³, W. Boeglin⁹, M. Boer³³, W. J. Briscoe¹¹, T. Britton²⁹, R. Brunner¹⁰, S. Cao¹⁰, C. Chen⁶, E. Chudakov²⁹, G. Chung³³, P. L. Cole²⁰, O. Cortes¹¹, V. Crede¹⁰, M. M. Dalton²⁹, D. Darulis¹³, A. Deur²⁹, S. Dobbs¹⁰, A. Dolgolenko¹⁹, M. Dugger¹, R. Dzhygadlo¹⁵, D. Ebersole¹⁰, M. Edo⁷, H. Egiyan²⁹, P. Eugenio¹⁰, A. Fabrizi²¹, C. Fanelli³⁵, S. Fang¹⁷, M. Fritsch³, S. Furletov²⁹, L. Gan²⁵, H. Gao⁸, A. Gardner¹, A. Gasparian²⁴, D. I. Glazier¹³, C. Gleason³², K. Goetzen^15,*, B. Grube²⁹, J. Guo⁴, A. Hamdi^15,27, J. Hernandez¹⁰, K. Hernandez¹, N. D. Hoffman⁴, D. Hornidge²³, G. M. Huber²⁷, P. Hurck¹³, W. Imoehl⁴, D. G. Ireland¹³, M. M. Ito¹⁰, I. Jaegle²⁹, N. S. Jarvis⁴, T. Jeske²⁹, M. Jing¹⁷, R. T. Jones⁷, V. Kakoyan³⁷, G. Kalicy⁵, X. Kang⁶, V. Khachatryan¹⁸, C. Kourkoumelis², A. LaDuke⁴, I. Larin²⁹, D. Lawrence²⁹, D. I. Lersch²⁹, H. Li³⁵, B. Liu¹⁷, K. Livingston¹³, L. Lorenti³⁵, V. Lyubovitskij^31,30, H. Marukyan³⁷, V. Matveev¹⁹, M. McCaughan²⁹, M. McCracken^4,34, C. A. Meyer⁴, R. Miskimen²¹, R. E. Mitchell¹⁸, P. Moran³⁵, F. Nerling^14,15,16,†, L. Ng²⁹, E. Nissen²⁹, S. Orešić²⁷, A. I. Ostrovidov¹⁰, Z. Papandreou²⁷, L. Pentchev²⁹, K. J. Peters¹⁵, L. Puthiya Veetil²⁵, S. Rakshit¹⁰, J. Reinhold⁹, A. Remington¹⁰, J. Ritman^15,3, G. Rodriguez¹⁰, K. Saldana¹⁸, S. Schadmand¹⁵, A. M. Schertz¹⁸, K. Scheuer³⁵, A. Schmidt¹¹, R. A. Schumacher⁴, J. Schwiening¹⁵, M. Scott¹¹, N. Septian¹⁰, P. Sharp¹¹, V. J. Shen³, X. Shen¹⁷, M. R. Shepherd¹⁸, J. Sikes¹⁸, H. Singh²⁷, A. Smith²⁹, E. S. Smith³⁵, A. Somov²⁹, S. Somov²², J. R. Stevens³⁵, I. I. Strakovsky¹¹, B. Sumner¹, K. Suresh³⁵, V. V. Tarasov¹⁹, S. Taylor²⁹, A. Teymurazyan²⁷, A. Thiel¹², M. Thomson²⁷, T. Viducic²⁶, T. Whitlatch²⁹, Y. Wunderlich⁷, B. Yu⁸, J. Zarling²⁷, Z. Zhang³⁶, X. Zhou³⁶, and B. Zihlmann²⁹ (The GlueX Collaboration)

• ¹Polytechnic Sciences and Mathematics, School of Applied Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
• ²Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15771 Athens, Greece
• ³Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Institut für Experimentalphysik, D-44801 Bochum, Germany
• ⁴Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
• ⁵Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064, USA
• ⁶School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
• ⁷Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
• ⁸Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
• ⁹Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
• ¹⁰Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
• ¹¹Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052, USA
• ¹²Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, D-35390 Gießen, Germany
• ¹³School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
• ¹⁴Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• ¹⁵GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
• ¹⁶Helmholtz Forschungsakademie Hessen für FAIR (HFHF), Campus Frankfurt, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
• ¹⁷Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
• ¹⁸Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
• ¹⁹National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow 123182, Russia
• ²⁰Department of Physics, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710, USA
• ²¹Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
• ²²National Research Nuclear University Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow 115409, Russia
• ²³Department of Physics, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick E4L 1E6, Canada
• ²⁴Department of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411, USA
• ²⁵Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403, USA
• ²⁶Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
• ²⁷Department of Physics, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2, Canada
• ²⁸Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, 01109, USA
• ²⁹Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA
• ³⁰Laboratory of Particle Physics, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
• ³¹Department of Physics, Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
• ³²Department of Physics and Astronomy, Union College, Schenectady, New York 12308, USA
• ³³Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
• ³⁴Department of Physics, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, USA
• ³⁵Department of Physics, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185, USA
• ³⁶School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, People’s Republic of China
• ³⁷A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute), 0036 Yerevan, Armenia

• ^*Contact author: k.goetzen@gsi.de
• ^†Contact author: F.Nerling@gsi.de