ROLE OF PARTICLE-HOLE CORRELATIONS IN THE INELASTIC SCATTERING OF ELECTRONS FROM C12, O16, AND CA40,

Abstract : All available experimental data on the inelastic scattering of high-energy electrons from C12, O16, and Ca40 have been analyzed in terms of the particle-hole models of nuclear excitations. The calculations do not involve any free parameters. The results proved quite sensitive to the treatment of nuclear correlations and generally favored the random-phase approximation, which yielded satisfactory agreement with most of the data. (Author)