COULOMB SUM AND PROTON-PROTON CORRELATIONS IN FEW-BODY NUCLEI

For simple models of the nuclear charge operator, measurements of the Coulomb sum and the charge form factor of a nucleus directly determine the proton-proton correlations. We examine experimental results obtai ned for few-body nuclei at Bates and Saclay using models of the charge operator that include both one- and two-body terms. Previous analyses using one-body terms only have failed to reproduce the experimental r esults. However, we find that the same operators which have been used to successfully describe the charge form factors also produce substant ial agreement with measurements of the Coulomb sum.