The high-energy photoproduction of light-quark pseudoscalar and scalar mesons is an effective tool for understanding the properties of strong interaction in the nonperturbative regime. It has been investigated theoretically using Regge-cut phenomenology with massive quasi-particle exchange in the high-energy regime, and the linearly polarized photon beam asymmetry [Formula: see text] can provide insight into the dominant production mechanism. In the low-energy region, it can provide constraints on ”background” to baryon resonance extraction. With an almost 50-year history, intensive experiments on meson photoproduction are growing vigorously at several international laboratories, such as JLab, ELSA, and MAMI. Recently the beam asymmetry [Formula: see text] in high-energy [Formula: see text] photoproduction has been measured at GlueX, which is the first measurement both from the GlueX experiment and the 12 GeV upgraded JLab. The highest precision measurement of the [Formula: see text] asymmetry and the first measurement of [Formula: see text] beam asymmetry at a beam energy above 3 GeV are presented. A broad meson photoproduction project, including scalar meson [Formula: see text], is under way at GlueX. In the proceedings, we report the beam asymmetry results for [Formula: see text] photoproduction at GlueX, as well as preliminary results for scalar meson photoproduction in the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] channels.
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