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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 22 SEPTEMBER 1975 X Y 0 Akimov et al., "Proton-Deuteron Elastic Scattering at Small Momentum Transfer from 50 to 400 GeV/c" (to be published). 2 Y. Akimov et al 0i preceding Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 3J5, 763 (1975)]. 3 This is justified by the near factorization of the form factor in elastic scattering (Ref. 1) and by the factorization of the diffractive vertex in the low-mass region (Ref. 2). In a fit of our inelastic data where c was treated as a free parameter, we obtained c = 64 0 3± 11.4 (GeV/c)~4 in agreement with the (more accurate) value of 62.3 ± 1.1 given by the deuteron form factor.

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