Unconventional baryon and meson spectroscopy at Jefferson Lab.

Understanding quark and gluon confinement in Quantum Chromodynamics is one of the main issue in hadronic physics. Electromagnetic probes, real and virtual photons, are a powerful tool to investigate how the QCD-partons manifest themselves in strong interaction at the energy scale of the nucleon mass (GeV). The CLAS Collaboration in Hall B at Jefferson Lab (USA) has a broad scientific program ranging from the static and dynamic properties of constituent quarks to the investigation of possible exotic baryon configurations. After a brief description of the CLAS detector, some selected results will be outlined showing the richness of this non-perturbative physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]