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Description
One of the motivations for the recent upgrade of Jefferson Lab was to precisely explore the connection between the fundamental quarks and gluons of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)- the accepted theory of the strong force- and the effective hadron descriptions of the strong interaction. The ultimate goal being an accurate understanding of the emergence of nuclei from QCD. The key experiments of this program typically aim to study fundamental QCD processes in nuclei and measurements of properties of quark systems in the nuclear medium. Many of the early experiments that have been completed at the upgraded JLab are part of this program designed to address the connection between quarks and nuclei. We will discuss some of these new results that have been published and other preliminary results, such as the search for color transparency, the studies of the EMC effect and the charge symmetry of quark distributions. We will also highlight upcoming experiments that are part of this program.
