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Understanding the confinement dynamics of quarks and gluons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei, remains a prime challenge in modern subatomic physics.~This investigation could be carried out by studying hadronization processes, particularly in the nuclear medium, where medium-stimulated effects such as hadron attenuation and transverse momentum broadening can be probed, providing critical insights into hadronization stages and thus the associated time-distance scales. In this talk, I will report on color propagation and hadron formation studies conducted at Jefferson Lab Hall B in spring 2024, deploying the CLAS12 detector and a dual-target assembly consisting of a liquid deuterium target in series with one of the five solid foils, carbon, aluminum, copper, tin, and lead. I will also discuss ongoing analysis efforts to extract preliminary results of my Ph.D. project investigating the Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering of $\Lambda$ hyperons off nuclei in a broad kinematical range that grants access to production in both forward and target fragmentation regions.
