Determination of the phase shifts forp-delastic scattering atEp=3 MeV

Abstract

Phase shift parameters for p-d elastic scattering are extracted from new measurements of spin observables at E v = 3 MeV. The experimental phase shifts are compared with predictions obtained from Faddeev calculations. The agreement between theory and experiment is generally good. However, we find that there are significant discrepancies for the 2 Si phase shift and for the S-D mixing parameters.PACS numbers: 25.10. +S, 24.70.+S, 25.40.Cm There is currently a great deal of interest in understanding the nuclear three-body system. Over the last several years a substantial amount of progress has been made in the development of the theoretical means for addressing the three-body problem (for example, techniques for solving the Faddeev equations). It is now well established (see, for example, Ref.[1]) that conventional two-body NN forces are not sufficiently strong to reproduce the observed 3 H and 3 He binding energies, and the role of three-body forces in resolving this discrepancy has been studied extensively [2][3][4].Experimental results for n-d and p-d elastic scattering also have the potential to provide new information concerning the nature of the fundamental interactions in complex nuclear systems. As the theoretical capabilities continue to advance we can anticipate that the scattering data will begin to take on added importance. It has been known for some time that measurements of the nucleon analyzing power, A y , for N-d scattering are very sensitive to the NN 3 Pj partial waves [5], and this sensitivity has recently been exploited in an effort to constrain the NN 3 Pj forces [6]. It has also been suggested [5][6][7] that comparison of n-d and p-d results may provide information concerning possible charge independence and/or charge symmetry violation, and one can expect that N-d measurements will ultimately play an important role in understanding the nature and role of nuclear three-body forces.Our purpose in the present Letter is to present new measurements of spin observables for p-d elastic scattering. The measurements will be compared with existing state-of-the-art Faddeev calculations [8]. These calculations provide a good qualitative description of the data, but at the quantitative level there are discrepancies. The nature of the differences between the measured and calculated polarization observables will be studied by comparing phase shifts extracted from the data with the calculated phase shifts. Comparison of theory and experiment at the level of the phase shifts is clearly of value, since it is often possible to relate individual splittings or mixing parameters with specific components of the NN force. However, comparisons of this kind have not been fruitful in the past since the measurements have not been of sufficient quality to allow reliable and accurate determination of the phase shift parameters.We have obtained new measurements of the polarization observables for p-d elastic scattering at E p = 3 MeV and at the corresponding deuteron energy, Ed = 6 MeV. The new data set consists of mea...

Proton-deuteron elastic scattering at low energies

“…We also note the the present measurements at E c.m. = 1.67 and 2.00 MeV are in excellent agreement with previous data [2,3].…”

“…= 2 MeV, just below the deuteron breakup threshold [2,3]. Theoretical calculations of these p-d scattering observables using realistic NN and 3N interactions are now routinely possible [4,5].…”

Polarization observables inp−dscattering below 30 MeV

“…Accurate measurements of p-d observables below the DBT, have been reported recently [8][9][10]. A comparison of the theoretical predictions to these data shows an underprediction of the deuteron vector analyzing power iT 11 by ≈ 30% [11].…”

Low-Energy Proton-Deuteron Scattering with a Coulomb-Modified Faddeev Equation

“…Recently, precise measurements of observables in proton-deuteron (pd) elastic scattering have been performed at several energies [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11] for the details of nuclear forces, such as an off-shell difference in realistic nucleonnucleon (NN) potentials or the evidence for three-nucleon forces (3NFs). For obtaining less ambiguous information from these experimental data, we need to calculate the corresponding observables accurately by solving the problem of the three-body system consisting of two protons and one neutron.…”