A complete high-precision set of deuteron analyzing powers for elastic deuteron-proton (dp) scattering at 250 and 294 MeV/nucleon has been measured. These data and previously existing data sets for the cross section at similar energies are compared to the results of three-nucleon Faddeev calculations based on modern nucleonnucleon (NN) potentials alone or combined with two models of three-nucleon forces: the Tucson-Melbourne 99 and Urbana IX. Large discrepancies between pure NN theory and data, which are not resolved by the current three-nucleon forces, were found at c.m. backward angles θ c.m. 120 • for all the deuteron analyzing powers and the cross section. Because only small relativistic effects were found for the deuteron analyzing powers and the cross section, the inclusion of short-range components of the three-nucleon force is probably required to get a better description of the data.

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A complete set of deuteron analyzing powers for elastic deuteron-proton(dp) scattering at 250 and 294 MeV/nucleon has been measured. The obtained data are compared with the Faddeev calculations based on the modern nucleon-nucleon forces together with threenucleon forces.