The energy spectra of deuterons recoiling from a deuterium gas target bombarded by transversely polarized 796-MeV protons have been measured to obtain the differential cross sections, $\frac{d\sigma }{\mathrm{dt}}$, and analyzing powers, $A_y\mathrm{}\left(t\right)\mathrm{}$, for $\overrightarrow{\mathrm{p}}$-d elastic scattering over a range of laboratory angles from 4.53° to 13.02°, corresponding to a range of four-momentum transfer squared, $\mathrm{}\left|t\right|\mathrm{}$, from 0.013 to 0.108 Ge${\mathrm{V}}^2$/${\mathit{c}}^2$. Employing several sets of nucleon-nucleon, N-N, amplitudes obtained from N-N phase shift analyses, comparisons are made between the experimental data and the predictions of a multiple scattering theory. In this region of four-momentum transfer, $A_y$ is shown to depend almost entirely on the spin-independent and spin-orbit N-N amplitudes.

NUCLEAR REACTIONS $\mathrm{d}(\overrightarrow{\mathrm{p}}, \mathrm{p})\mathrm{d}$, $E=796\mathrm{}$ MeV; measured $\frac{d\sigma }{dt\left(\theta \right)}$ and $A_y\left(\theta \right)$; comparison with multiple-scattering theory using free N-N amplitudes, $-t=0.013-0.108\mathrm{}$ Ge${\mathrm{V}}^2$/${\mathit{c}}^2$, $\Delta t=1.88\mathrm{}\times {10}^{-3\mathrm{}}$ Ge${\mathrm{V}}^2$/${\mathit{c}}^2$.

• Received 26 April 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.28.2380