Searching for the Impetus of the EMC Effect.

Physicists use scattering experiments to gain a greater understanding of a nucleon's behavior in the nucleus and how the nucleons and the underlying quark distribution are modified by the nuclear medium. In the last few years, there have been a large number of publications that focus on the possible connection between the deep inelastic EMC effect and the x greater than1 two-nucleon correlation plateaus. We will investigate how the momentum distribution of a target nucleon effects deep inelastic scattering results using a Monte Carlo technique. This may help create a better understanding of the connection between the EMC effect and the two-nucleon correlation plateaus.