Abstract
Measurements have been made of seven polarization transfer coefficients for the reaction. The experiment used a polarized-deuteron beam from the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Lamb-shift polarized-ion source, a liquid-nitrogen cooled gas target, a magnetic quadrupole triplet for focusing the reaction protons, and a helium-filled polarimeter for simultaneously measuring the proton polarization along both transverse axes. Measurements were made of the polarization transfer coefficients and at for 4- to 14-MeV deuterons. A comparison of the results with the values reported for the reaction over the same energy range shows good agreement, as would be expected for the two charge-symmetric reactions. In addition, we have measured the proton polarization ; the vector transfer coefficients , , and ; and the tensor transfer coefficients , , , and at 8.0 MeV for laboratory angles of 15, 30, 45, and 60°. Calculated values for these observables from an -matrix parametrization of the five-nucleon system are in good agreement with the data.
[NUCLEAR REACTIONS : MeV, ; MeV, ; measured polarization transfer coefficients.]
- Received 14 June 1973
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.8.1629
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