$\textit{Ab initio}$ short-range-correlation scaling factors from light to medium-mass nuclei

High-energy scattering processes, such as deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and quasielastic (QE) scattering provide a wealth of information about the structure of atomic nuclei. The remarkable discovery of the empirical linear relationship between the slope of the EMC effect in DIS and the short-range-correlation (SRC) scaling factors $a_2$ in QE kinematics is naturally explained in terms of scale separation in effective field theory. This explanation has powerful consequences, allowing us to calculate and predict SRC scaling factors from $\textit{ab initio}$ low-energy nuclear theory. We present $\textit{ab initio}$ calculations of SRC scaling factors for a nucleus $A$ relative to the deuteron $a_2(A/d)$ and relative to $^3\mathrm{He}$ $a_2(A/^3\mathrm{He})$ in light and medium-mass nuclei. Our framework further predicts that the EMC effect and SRC scaling factors have minimal or negligible isovector corrections.