  Photon absorption by a quark in one nucleon followed by its high momentum
transfer interaction with a quark in the other may produce two nucleons with
high relative momentum. We sum the relevant quark rescattering diagrams, to
show that the scattering amplitude depends on a convolution between the large
angle $pn$ scattering amplitude, the hard photon-quark interaction vertex and
the low-momentum deuteron wave function. The computed cross sections are in
reasonable agreement with the data.
