Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2006-08-15
Phys.Rev. C74 (2006) 034001
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
22 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Physical Review C, corrected reference 49
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.74.034001
We present new accurate measurements of the differential cross section $\sigma(\theta)$ and the proton analyzing power $A_{y}$ for proton-$^{3}$He elastic scattering at various energies. A supersonic gas jet target has been employed to obtain these low energy cross section measurements. The $\sigma(\theta)$ distributions have been measured at $E_{p}$ = 0.99, 1.59, 2.24, 3.11, and 4.02 MeV. Full angular distributions of $A_{y}$ have been measured at $E_{p}$ = 1.60, 2.25, 3.13, and 4.05 MeV. This set of high-precision data is compared to four-body variational calculations employing realistic nucleon-nucleon (NN) and three-nucleon (3N) interactions. For the unpolarized cross section the agreement between the theoretical calculation and data is good when a $3N$ potential is used. The comparison between the calculated and measured proton analyzing powers reveals discrepancies of approximately 50% at the maximum of each distribution. This is analogous to the existing ``$A_{y}$ Puzzle'' known for the past 20 years in nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering.
Black T. C.
Brune Carl R.
Fisher Brendan Michael
Karwowski H. J.
Kievsky Alejandro
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