Center-of-mass effects on the quasi-hole spectroscopic factors in the 16O(e,e'p) reaction

Abstract

The spectroscopic factors for the low-lying quasi-hole states observed in the 16O(e,e'p)15N reaction are reinvestigated with a variational Monte Carlo calculation for the structure of the initial and final nucleus. A computational error in a previous report is rectified. It is shown that a proper treatment of center-of-mass motion does not lead to a reduction of the spectroscopic factor for $p$-shell quasi-hole states, but rather to a 7% enhancement. This is in agreement with analytical results obtained in the harmonic oscillator model. The center-of-mass effect worsens the discrepancy between present theoretical models and the experimentally observed single-particle strength. We discuss the present status of this problem, including some other mechanisms that may be relevant in this respect.

14 pages, no figures, uses Revtex, to be published in Phys. Rev. C 58 (1998)

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• Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of nuclei with A \leq 7

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