It was a pleasure to be invited to Maresias, Brazil, for the 4th International Workshop on “Quasi-Free Scattering with Radioactive Beams” to talk about some on-going work on short-range nuclear correlations. I primarily use electron-scattering as my experimental technique of choice, and to hear about all of the incredible work being done using nuclear reactions, especially with unstable nuclei in inverse kinematics was fascinating. I will be thinking about ways to incorporate these methods into my own research.
My collaborator, MIT graduate student Efrain Segarra gave an outstanding talk about the hypothesis that the EMC Effect may stem from the modification of nucleons in short-range correlated pairs. Specifically, he presented results on how we can use measurements of the EMC Effect in heavy nuclei to constrain what we might expect when looking at light nuclei (specifically helium-3 and tritium!) and infer some information about free neutron structure. You can read our paper on the arXiv.
