Probing Flavor Dependence of the EMC Effect

The correlation between the EMC effect and the short-range correlations (SRCs) suggests that there is potentially a closer connection between these two effects. This raises the possibility of an isospin dependent EMC effect in non-isoscalar nuclei due to the np dominance of the SRCs. However, there has been no conclusive experimental evidence for the isospin dependence or lack thereof for the EMC effect. Recent analyses have investigated the EMC-SRC correlation under two separate assumptions: the dominance of the np pairs contributing to the EMC effect (high virtuality) and the isospin-independent EMC effect (local density), and observed no isospin dependence of the EMC effect. We will present the new results on a global analysis that has been performed using the same approaches followed in these analyses with all the existing experimental data.