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Hall B Scientific Staff Bios


Maurizio Ungaro


Maurizio Ungaro received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1999 from the University of Genoa, Italy. He received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 2004 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute following an M.S. from the same institute. His thesis work on the N → Δ+(1232) transition culminated in a top-cited Physical Review Letters article. Prior to joining Jefferson Lab in 2011, he had been a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the University of Connecticut, where he performed experiments at SPring-8, Japan and in Hall B and Hall C at JLab. At JLab, his research focus is on the internal structure and dynamics of the nucleon and the transition between hadronic and partonic degrees of freedom. Maurizio has played a crucial role in the Two Photon Exchange experiment (the first to produce a simultaneous electron and positron beam on target) and is an active member of the Heavy Photon Search Collaboration between JLab and SLAC hunting for dark matter. He supervised the refurbishment of the Low Threshold Cherenkov Counter detector for the CLAS12 upgrade and is the author of the GEMC software frameworks for Geant4 simulations. He was the Physics Division Liaison for Hall B in 2019-2020. He also serves as a co-advisor for physics Ph.D. students, supervises the research of undergraduate students, and has more than 100 publications in refereed journals to his credit. Maurizio is coordinating the simulations of CLAS12 data in the Open Science Grid. In 2022 he joined the Geant4 Collaboration with the purpose of supporting its development.

Current Responsibilities in Hall B:

  • Operation, maintenance, and calibration of the Low Threshold Cherenkov Counter detector.
  • Leading the development and maintenance of the CLAS12 Monte Carlo framework.
  • Operation and maintenance of CLAS12 simulations on the Open Science Grid (OSG).
  • Development of a full readout Monte Carlo tool usable by the CLAS12 high luminosity upgrade.
  • Provide Geant4 support and development.

Current Research Activities in Hall B:

  • π0 electroproduction in the first and second resonance regions.

Selected Publications:

  • M. Ungaro et al., "The CLAS12 Low Threshold Cherenkov Detector", Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A 957, 163420 (2020).
  • M. Ungaro et al., "The CLAS12 Geant4 Simulation", Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 959, 163422 (2020).
  • B. Zhao et al. (CLAS Collaboration), "Measurement of the Beam Spin asymmetry of e p → e'p'η in the Deep-Inelastic Regime with CLAS", Phys. Lett. B 789, 426 (2019).
  • W. Gohn et al. (CLAS Collaboration), "Beam-Spin Asymmetries from Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction", Phys. Rev. D 89, 072001 (2014).
  • M. Ungaro et al. (CLAS Collaboration), "Measurement of the N → Δ+(1232) Transition at High Momentum Transfer by π0 Electroproduction", Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 112003 (2006).