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Hall B Scientific Staff Bios


Raffaella De Vita


Raffaella De Vita joined Hall B as a staff scientist in 2023, after 25 years as a JLab user. Her main research interest is hadron spectroscopy, with the study of rare resonances and the search for unconventional states such as exotic mesons and baryons with CLAS and CLAS12. In recent years, she has also contributed to the JLab program to search for light-dark matter as a member of the HPS and BDX Collaborations. Raffaella joined the CLAS Collaboration in 1998 as a graduate student. She got her Ph.D. in physics from the Università di Genova (Italy) in 2000 with a thesis on double spin asymmetries in π+ electroproduction based on CLAS eg1a data. She continued as a post-doc at INFN in Genova, where she became a staff scientist in 2004 and senior staff in 2019. In the CLAS Collaboration, she has been active in both managerial and scientific roles. She is a spokesperson for several letters of intent and proposals such as MesonEx, which proposes the investigation of the meson spectrum with quasi-real photoproduction in JLab-Hall B. She supervised the design and construction of the quasi-real photon tagging facility that is used to complete this physics program. She chaired the CLAS12 Calibration and Commissioning Group, CalCom, from 2011 to 2017, when she was elected Chair of the CLAS Collaboration. She currently is the CLAS12 Software Coordinator. Raffaella has authored more than 300 papers published in refereed journals, participated in the organization of international conferences, and workshops, and presented Jefferson Lab physics in many invited talks.

Current Responsibilities in Hall B:

  • Work with staff and users on the development of offline CLAS12 software and analysis tools
  • Contribute to the CLAS12 luminosity upgrade
  • Support Hall B operations with the CLAS12 Forward Tagger