Holly Szumila-Vance

Assistant Professor
Physics

Holly Szumila-Vance

OCNPS 233
NORFOLK, NORFOLK, VA 23529

Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics, Old Dominion University, (2017)

M.S. in Physics, Old Dominion University, (2014)

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, (2009)

B.S. in Space Physics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, (2008)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Szumila-Vance, H. "Probing QCD Structure in Nucleons and Nuclei via Threshold Vector Meson Production" $875,000. Federal. -
"Streaming Trigger and Real-time Intelligent Data Engine (STRIDE)" $556,110. Federal. -

Articles

(2026). Nuclear shell structure governs short-range nucleon pairing. Nature 654 , pp. 619–621.
(2026). Seeing Through the Nucleus: A Review of Color Transparency Phenomena.
(2025). First Measurement of Near- and Sub-Threshold J/ψ Photoproduction off Nuclei.
(2025). Flavor Dependence of Charged Pion Fragmentation Functions.
(2025). New Measurements of the Deuteron to Proton Fâ‚‚ Structure Function Ratio.
(2025). The SHMS 11 GeV/c Spectrometer in Hall C at Jefferson Lab.
(2024). Search for Axion-Like Particles through Nuclear Primakoff Production Using the GlueX Detector.
(2024). Tagged Deep Inelastic Scattering Measurement on Deuterium with the LAD Experiment.
(2023). Constraints on the Onset of Color Transparency from Quasielastic ¹²C(e,e′p) up to Q² = 14.2 (GeV/c)².
(2023). Determining the Gluonic Gravitational Form Factors of the Proton.
(2023). First Measurement of the EMC Effect in ¹�B and ¹¹B.
(2023). Searching for Prompt and Long-Lived Dark Photons in Electroproduced e�e� Pairs with the Heavy Photon Search Experiment at JLab.
(2022). Measurement of the Nucleon F₂�/F₂ᵖ Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment.
(2022). Revealing the Short-Range Structure of the Mirror Nuclei ³H and ³He.
(2022). Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion Collider: EIC Yellow Report.
(2022). Searching for an Enhanced Signal of the Onset of Color Transparency in Baryons with D(e,e′p)n Scattering.
(2021). Examining the EMC Effect Using the F₂� Neutron Structure Function.
(2021). Ruling Out Color Transparency in Quasielastic ¹²C(e,e′p) up to Q² of 14.2 (GeV/c)².
(2020). Probing Few-Body Nuclear Dynamics via ³H and ³He (e,e′p)pn Cross-Section Measurements.
(2020). Probing the Deuteron at Very Large Internal Momenta.
(2018). Search for a Dark Photon in Electroproduced e�e� Pairs with the Heavy Photon Search Experiment at JLab.
(2017). The HPS Beamline and Its Performance.
(2017). The HPS Electromagnetic Calorimeter.

Presentations

(August , 2026). Nuclear Physics at Jefferson Lab Oral Presentation Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Jefferson Lab.
( 2025). Experimental Outlook on Exploring Color Transparency Phenomena 11th Workshop of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, Anaheim, CA [Invited plenary] .
( 2025). Nucleons in Nuclei as the Roadmap across Scales Physics Division Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory [Invited seminar] .
( 2024). Chasing QCD Signatures in Nuclei 31st International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2024), Grenoble, France (2024) [Invited award talk, Guido Altarelli Award] .
( 2024). Experimental Searches for the Onset of Color Transparency in Protons American Physical Society April Meeting, Sacramento, CA [Invited] .
( 2024). Experimental Efforts Searching for the Onset of Color Transparency oint 20th International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy and 5th Workshop on Correlations in Partonic and Hadronic Interactions, Yerevan, Armenia [Invited] .
( 2024). Color Transparency Effects at 22 GeV Science at the Luminosity Frontier Workshop, INFN Frascati-LNF, Frascati, Italy [Invited] .
( 2023). Hadrons in Nuclei and the Experimentalist’s Roadmap to QCD Lepton Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei, Marciana Marina, Isola d’Elba, Italy [Invited] .
( 2022). A Review of the Recent Status of Color Transparency Correlations in Partonic and Hadronic Interactions (CPHI-2022), Duke University [Invited] .
( 2021). Ruling Out Color Transparency in Quasielastic ¹²C(e,e′p) up to Q² = 14 (GeV/c)² American Physical Society April Meeting “Quarks to Cosmos� [Invited] .
( 2021). SRC and Few-Body Precision Measurements on ³H and ³He Mirror Nuclei American Physical Society April Meeting “Quarks to Cosmos� [Invited] .
( 2021). Color Transparency in JLab Experiments and Different Reaction Mechanisms Exploring QCD with Tagged Processes Workshop, Institut Pascal, Orsay, France [Invited] .
( 2019). Preliminary Results Searching for the Onset of Color Transparency in A(e,e′p) in Hall C American Physical Society April Meeting, Denver, CO [Invited] .
( 2018). Searching for the Onset of Color Transparency in Hall C at Jefferson Lab Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP), Palm Springs, CA .
( 2018). Searching for the Onset of Color Transparency at Jefferson Lab: A Hall C Commissioning Experiment in the 12 GeV Era Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (2018) [Invited seminar] .
( 2017). Searching for Dark Photons at Jefferson Lab Jefferson Lab Users Group Annual Meeting [Invited] .
( 2017). Searching for Dark Photons at Jefferson Lab Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Georgia College and State University [Invited] .
  • 2024: Guido Altarelli Award, INFN, World Scientific, EPJ
  • 2016: Jefferson Science Associates / Jefferson Lab Graduate Fellowship, Jefferson Science Associates
  • 2015: NASA Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship, NASA
  • 2013: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, Old Dominion University
  • 2009: Distinguished Military Graduate (top 20% of ROTC cadets nationally), U.S. Army
  • 2008: AFCEA Congressional Medal of Honor Scholarship, AFCEA
  • 2004: Presidential Scholar, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University