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