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While it is long known that the quark stature of the nucleon is modified in the nuclear medium, we still lack understanding of the underlying physical mechanism that causes this modification. Understanding this mechanism will teach us about the interplay between partonic and nucleonic degrees of freedom in nuclear systems and is therefore a main challenge of modern nuclear physics.
In this talk I will overview new insight to the origin of the EMC effect, obtained from recent phenomenological and theoretical studies. Special emphasis will be given to EFT and QCD based studies, both relating the origin of the EMC effect to the existence of short-range correlated pairs of nucleons in nucleon.
Given time I will overview novel experiments that are approved to run at the upgraded Jefferson-Lab facility and are expected to shad new light on the EMC effect and its implications to the 3D structure of bound nucleons.
The new insight presented in this talk is also summarized in a recent review paper commissioned by Reviews of Modern Physics (arXiv 1611.09748).
