Abstract
The knockout of a-clusters induced by electrons has been used to study four-nucleon correlations in O-16. For the transition to the ground state of C-12 the (e, e ' alpha) cross section has been measured for three values of the momentum transfer and four values of the missing momentum. The momentum-transfer dependence gives evidence for a quasi-elastic alpha -knockout mechanism. The shape of the measured missing-momentum distribution is reasonably well described by shell-model and cluster-model calculations, but the theoretical curves overshoot the data by a factor three to four
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 258-264 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Physics Letters B |
| Volume | 513 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2-Aug-2001 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- electron-induced knockout reactions
- four-nucleon correlations
- alpha-clustering
- PION-NUCLEUS INTERACTIONS
- SHORT-RANGE CORRELATIONS
- ELECTRON-SCATTERING
- SPECTROSCOPIC FACTORS
- P,P-ALPHA REACTION
- O-16
- SHELL
- ABSORPTION
- MECHANISM
- LI-6