Study of Color Transparency Phenomenon Via Vector Meson Electroproduction Off Nuclei

One of modern physics objectives is to understand better the motion dynamics of quarks and gluons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei. However, the deeper one looks, the more perplexing the strongly interacting particles, namely hadrons, behave. The study of this behavior, as described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions, could rely on investigating intrinsic phenomena such as Color Transparency, in which small-size hadrons are created and propagate through the nuclear medium with almost nil interactions with the surrounding color field and thus exit the nucleus intact. In this talk, I will give a brief description of my thesis experiment that accumulated data in fall 2023 in Hall B at Jefferson Lab using the CLAS12 detector and various nuclear targets, deuterium, carbon, copper, and tin, and then present the ongoing calibration and analysis efforts to extract its first preliminary results.