Quasielastic knock-out of clusters by electrons and nuclear restructuring effects - art. no. 014605

The general microscopic formalism is presented for the description of the q uasielastic knock-out of cu clusters from p-shell nuclei by ultrarelativist ic electrons, Manifestations of nuclear structure in differential cross sec tions and angular distributions are studied. The typical C-12(e,epsilon'alp ha)Be-8 reaction is considered in the PWIA and DWIA approximations; particu lar attention is paid to the effects of virtually excited cluster states in side the initial nucleus. Suggestions for the observation of nuclear restru cturing effects (interplay between diagonal and off-diagonal transitions wi th respect to the intrinsic state of the cluster) are proposed. [S0556-2813 (99)02907-6].