  The cross section for the removal of high-momentum protons from 16O is
calculated for high missing energies. The admixture of high-momentum nucleons
in the 16O ground state is obtained by calculating the single-hole spectral
function directly in the finite nucleus with the inclusion of short-range and
tensor correlations induced by a realistic meson-exchange interaction. The
presence of high-momentum nucleons in the transition to final states in 15N at
60-100 MeV missing energy is converted to the coincidence cross section for the
(e,e'p) reaction by including the coupling to the electromagnetic probe and the
final state interactions of the outgoing proton in the same way as in the
standard analysis of the experimental data. Detectable cross sections for the
removal of a single proton at these high missing energies are obtained which
are considerably larger at higher missing momentum than the corresponding cross
sections for the p-wave quasihole transitions. Cross sections for these
quasihole transitions are compared with the most recent experimental data
available.

Nuclear Theory