Spin Rotation Parameter Q For Elastic Scattering Of 800 Mev Polarized Protons From Wo Uca And Sypb PDF Download

A specific set of spin dependent parameters for elastic scattering of polarized protons from an unpolarized deuterium target have been measured over the angular range of 15° and 65° in the Laboratory system. The experiment was performed at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) using a polarized proton beam of 0.5 and 0.8 GeV incident kinetic energy. A carbon analyzer was used to measure the scattered proton polarization. This comprises the first set of measurements in the intermediate energy range. Of particular interest, the analyzing power, (A/sub y/), has been measured for the pd elastic scattering reaction at both energies. A test of Time-Reversal Invariance (TRI) has been made for this reaction. This was accomplished by comparing the polarization (P) with the analyzing power A/sub y/ together with the depolarization parameter, (D), which was measured in this experiment. No evidence of time-reversal violation was found for this reaction in the region of non-zero spin flip probability. The measurements also furnished very useful and selective information on the p-d collision matrix, as well as the double-spin-flip nucleon-nucleon amplitudes.