Career Timeline
Laboratory Directed Research (LDRD), Project Director, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA
Recipient of 2021 Southeastern section of the americans physics society Jesse B.Beams Award
Elected Fellow of the American Physical So- ciety with the citation: For her pioneering work on experiments in deeply virtual Comp- ton scattering (DVCS), a powerful means of accessing the non-perturbative structure of the nucleon and insuring the maximum ful- filment of their potential by playing a major role in the 12 GeV Jefferson Upgrade
Co-découverte de la première propriété mécanique du proton
Dirigé la construction et la mise en service du détecteur de 100 millions de dollars du Jefferson Lab tout au long du cycle de vie du projet
Première mesure de la force forte de la nature Latifa Elouadrhiri a supervisé récemment des expériences qui ont utilisé des photons comme substituts aux gravitons pour étudier la force forte à l’intérieur des protons.
PROGRAM MANAGER AT THE DOE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS Program manager of the international Co-operation portfolio
CLAS12
A shining jewel of fundamental research in nuclear physics for the next two decades. A state-of-the-art particle detector meticulously exploring the intricacies of atomic nuclei and subatomic particles. Its operating mode, based on the collision of highly energetic electron beams with specific targets, opens doors to new perspectives on the essential structure and deep properties of matter.
This breakthrough has paved the way for a completely revolutionary approach to elucidating the complex structure of the proton.
Proton's new views
Latifa Elouadrhiri recently supervised experiments that bombarded protons with particles of light acting as substitutes for gravitons, the hypothetical particles transmitting gravity. These experiments demonstrated that at the heart of the proton, the strong force generates pressures of unimaginable intensity—100 billion trillion trillion pascals—and that the tangential shear force inside the proton changes direction near 𝑟≈0.45 fm. Peak: 38,000 N (4 metric tons).
The results were published in the prestigious Journal of Review of Modern Physics (Reviews of Modern Physics 95, 041002 (2023)).