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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 570, Issues 3–4, 4 April 1994, Pages 722-764
Nuclear Physics A

The elastic and inelastic scattering of intermediate energy protons on deuterium at small momentum transfer

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Abstract

The differential cross sections for the elastic and inelastic scattering of protons on deuterium have been measured for scattering angles less than 14° at 198.5, 297.6 and 456.6 MeV. These quantities were determined relative to dσ / dΩ for pp elastic scattering with a precision of typically 2%. The range of excitation energies for the (p, p') reaction was chosen to emphasize the region near the np threshold dominated by the final-state interaction in the 1S0 channel. Particular attention was given to the dependence on excitation energy of the spectra at 198.5 MeV to examine the sensitivity to the 1S0 scattering length, anp In this paper all data are compared with a new, detailed formulation of a simple model of the reaction mechanism based on the impulse approximation. The experimental results differ from the predictions by typically 10% and the differential cross sections exhibit a sensitivity to the intermediate-energy nucleon-nucleon amplitudes. If the impulse approximation is used to estimate anp from the data at 198.5 MeV a value of − 24.7 ± 0.4 fm is obtained.

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