Abstract
The cross section for the reaction has been measured in a kinematically complete experiment with 590-MeV protons. Reactions with recoil momenta of the residual nucleus up to 120 MeV/c have been detected. The results are interpreted in terms of the plane-wave impulse approximation and the cluster model. It is found that the reaction occurs with a cross section 0.8 times as large as the free elastic cross section at the same average c.m. scattering angle. The width of the momentum distribution for the motion of a deuteron in is observed to be 124±4 MeV/c (full width at half maximum), a value considerably larger than had been observed before in similar experiments at lower energies.
- Received 28 February 1972
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.6.18
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