Colloquia

The discovery in 1983 by the European Muon Collaboration (EMC) that quark distributions in nuclei are modified relative to the free proton and neutron was surprising and had implications for what physicists thought they knew about the role of quarks in the nucleus.  After more than 40 years of intense theoretical and experimental study, there is still no consensus on the origin of this so-called EMC Effect.  However, an exciting program of measurements at Jefferson Lab inspired by recent theoretical predictions and experimental observations provides hope that this long-running question will soon be answered.  In this talk, I will discuss this program and discuss some recent results that will provide important information about the origin of the EMC Effect.