Dynamics Of The O-16(E,E(L)P) Reaction At High Missing Energies

We measured the cross section and response functions for the quasielastic O-16(e, e 'p) reaction for missing energies 25 less than or equal to E-m less than or equal to 120 MeV at missing momenta P-m less than or equal to 340 MeV/c. For 25 < E-m < 50 MeV and P-m approximate to 60 MeV/c, the reaction is dominated by a single ls(1/2) proton knockout. At larger P-m, the single-particle aspects are increasingly masked by more complicated processes. Calculations which include pion exchange currents, isobar currents, and short-range correlations account for the shape and the transversity, but for only half of the magnitude of the measured cross section.