Connections Between Nuclear PDFs and High-Momentum Nucleons

Earlier experiments at Jefferson Lab observed a possible connection between the EMC effect and contribution of short-range correlations (SRCs) in nuclei which suggests that the modification of the quark distributions of bound protons and neutrons might occur within SRCs. This might raise 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. I will give an overview about the earlier measurements and studies trying to shed light on the connection of the EMC effect and SRCs and also, discuss the preliminary results on a universal EMC analysis that was performed using the above-mentioned assumptions and all the existing experimental data.