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Description
The EMC effect, the observation that Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) from bound nucleons differs significantly from that on free nucleons, has puzzled nuclear physicists for nearly forty years. A potential cause for this phenomenon is the formation of short-range correlations (SRCs) between nucleons within a nucleus, which can lead to significant changes in partonic structure. This hypothesis can be directly tested using the technique of recoil-tagging, in which the detection of the correlated spectator nucleon can reveal that the struck nucleon was part of an SRC. The Backward Angle Neutron Detector (BAND) was designed to tag recoiling neutrons in DIS on protons bound in deuterium. BAND was installed as part of the of the CLAS12 spectrometer in Hall B of Jefferson Lab and took production data in 2019-2020. This talk will discuss the current status of the BAND analysis, whose results will further our understanding of the relationship between the EMC Effect and short-range correlations in nuclei.
