Search for N* Resonances in Double-Polarization Experiments using CLAS

At medium energies where the strong coupling constant is very large and perturbative methods can no longer be applied, the nature of confinement remains one of the key challenges in our present understanding of QCD. A necessary step is undoubtedly to identify the relevant degrees of freedom in this energy regime and the effective forces between them. Thus, a precise knowledge of the spectrum of baryon resonances and their properties is needed. A large number of states has been found in different analyses. However, only a few of them are well established and confirmed by different experiments. It has been shown that particular resonances have large effects on polarization observables. At Jefferson Laboratory, a major program has been proposed to perform a large set of photoproduction experiments using linearly- and circularly-polarized tagged photon beams as well as longitudinally and transversely-polarized targets. In double-pion production, a major obstacle in the determination of the couplings of baryon resonances are the considerable contributions from non-resonant mechanisms, m this case, polarization observables, which are sensitive to very small resonance contributions, will be helpful in the evaluation of N* properties