Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations in Electromagnetically Induced Knockout Reactions

Abstract

The attempts to investigate correlations in electromagnetically induced one- and two-nucleon knockout are reviewed. The theoretical framework for cross section calculations is outlined and some results are presented for the exclusive ${}^{16}$O($e,e^{\prime }p{)}^{15}$N and ${}^{16}$O($e,e^{\prime }pp{)}^{14}$C reactions. For the ($e,e^{\prime }p$) reaction attention is focussed on extracting the spectroscopic factors. For the ($e,e^{\prime }pp$) reaction the possibility of obtaining direct and clear information on short-range correlations is discussed.

20 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the XIV International School on Nuclear Physics, Neutron Physics and Nuclear Energy, Varna, September 25 -30, 2001