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Description
The unexpected downward slope of deep inelastic scattering ratios heavier nuclei to deuterium in the valence quark region is now nearly a 40-year-old puzzle. While a tremendous theoretical effort has gone into understanding the root cause of the effect, the problem wasn’t lack of being able to describe the data, it was that nearly every model could. In the early 21st century, experimentalists noted a striking correlation between the slope of the EMC effect and the magnitude of short-range correlated pair. These two phenomena can both be related to pairs of nucleons in a nucleon strongly interacting and thus have a possible physical reason being connected to each other. I will review the history of the EMC effect as well as the short-range correlation data; as well as present the upcoming experiments that way finally resolve this long-standing puzzle.
