SIGNATURES FOR SHORT-RANGE CORRELATIONS IN O-16 OBSERVED IN THE REACTION O-16(E,E'PP)C-14

The reaction O-16(e,e'pp)C-14 has been studied at a transferred four-m omentum (omega,\q\) = (210 MeV, 300 MeV/c). The differential cross sec tions for the transitions to the ground state and the lowest excited s tates in C-14 were determined as a function of the momentum of the rec oiling C-14 nucleus and the angle between the momentum of the proton e mitted in the forward direction and the momentum transfer q. A compari son of the data to the results of calculations, performed with a micro scopic model, shows clear signatures for short-range correlations in t he O-16 ground state.