Speaker
Description
Understanding the origin of the EMC effect - the modification of the internal structure of nucleons bound in nuclei - is an ongoing effort in QCD research with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the fundamental structure of matter. Inclusive measurements have characterized many features of the EMC effect, but are insensitive to the initial state of the nucleus and therefore limited in their ability to pinpoint the mechanisms driving nucleon modification. Recently emerging measurements of tagged deep inelastic scattering (TDIS) from atomic nuclei probe the dependence of quark distribution functions on the initial state of the bound nucleon. The backward angle neutron detector (BAND) was built to measure TDIS off highly-virtual protons in deuterium with the detection of high-momentum spectator neutrons. This novel measurement is sensitive to the bound proton's structure as a function of its initial momentum within the nucleus. This talk will present preliminary results from BAND, which will further our understanding of the EMC effect and its relation to short-range correlations in nuclei. Given time I will present studies of the ability to extend these studies to the EIC.
