Most of the recently published papers on photonuclear reactions at intermediate energies1 either adopt or criticize the theoretical description by Hebach et al.2 We implement here a simple and realistic calculation for the shell model knock-out contribution which considers a Woods-Saxon potential for the bound state and a shallower optical potential for the outgoing nucleon. Final states are explicitly orthogonalized to the initial state and the effects of the orthogonalization requirement are discussed.
Radiochemical Study on Photonuclear Reactions of Complex Nuclei at Intermediate Energies