Testing the universality of short-range correlations using electron and photon probes at Jefferson Lab

Short Range Correlation (SRC) nucleon pairs are found in all nuclei involving two nucleons at close proximity with large relative momentum. Much of what has been learned about SRCs has come from electron-scattering experiments. While theories that factorize the hard scattering reaction from the description of SRCs in the nucleus are consistent with this data, we need to validate this by performing measurements with different probes and reactions. With this goal in mind, we studied a real photon beam incident on deuterium, helium, and carbon targets in Hall D of Jefferson Lab in Fall 2021 to measure a range of photoproduction reactions from correlated nucleons. While analysis is still on-going, preliminary results show signatures of SRCs, including the emission of spectator nucleons with momentum balancing the observed missing momentum. In this talk, I will discuss preliminary results from the and channels and highlight my own work studying the relative abundances of SRC pairs across nuclei and the predominance of neutron-proton pairing.