Based on 150 000 photographs taken at the ZGS with the 30 inch deuterium-filled chamber we present an analysis of the elastic p d scattering reaction. Due to unrecoreded small deuteron recoils we were only able to measure the elastic cross section in the four-momentum region | t | > 0.03 (GeV/ c ) 2 . Extrapolation towards small | t | by two different methods gave us two compatible estimates of the total elastic cross section. The differential cross section was analyzed by means of the Glauber formalism both with and without the effects due to the D-wave part of the deuteron wave function. The differential cross sections of np at 5.4 GeV/ c and pn deduced from our data were compared and exhibit a crossover phenomenon.
CALCULATED USING TOTAL ELASTIC SIG(-T > 0.03 GEV**2) = 7.2 +- 0.4. THE SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING APPROXIMATION HOLDS: D(SIG)/DOMEGA(RF=LAB) = (P**2/PI)*D(SIG)/DT.
INTEGRATED CROSS SECTION USING EITHER EXPONENTIAL EXTRAPOLATION OR GLAUBER MODEL FIT FOR -T < 0.03 GEV**2.
We have made improved measurements of 43.8 ± 0.8, 41.3 ± 0.4 and 39.3 ± 0.8 mb for the p p elastic cross sections at 1.11, 1.33 and 1.52 GeV/ c laboratory momenta respectively. Sharp forward peaks in the differential cross sections with broad secondary maxima agree with previous observations [3–6]. The forward differential cross sections are (11 ± 3)% above the optical point in agreement with real amplitudes extended from lower momenta using dispersion relations [7]. The elastic cross sections do not show any structure in the s -channel. Backward differential cross sections show the onset of a “third diffraction peak” but no evidence for other structure in agreement with earlier experiments [6, 13].
STATISTICAL PLUS SYSTEMATIC ERRORS.
STATISTICAL PLUS SYSTEMATIC ERRORS.
COUNTS WERE MULTIPLIED BY 1.000 TO GET THESE.. TOTAL NUMBER EVENTS= 543. READ FROM GRAPH.
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