Measurement of Spin Correlation Parameters A${}_{NN}$, A${}_{SS}$, and A_$SL$ at 2.1 GeV in Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering

Abstract

At the Cooler Synchrotron COSY/Jülich spin correlation parameters in elastic proton-proton (pp) scattering have been measured with a 2.11 GeV polarized proton beam and a polarized hydrogen atomic beam target. We report results for A${}_{NN}$, A${}_{SS}$, and A_$SL$ for c.m. scattering angles between 30${}^o$ and 90${}^o$. Our data on A${}_{SS}$ -- the first measurement of this observable above 800 MeV -- clearly disagrees with predictions of available of pp scattering phase shift solutions while A${}_{NN}$ and A_$SL$ are reproduced reasonably well. We show that in the direct reconstruction of the scattering amplitudes from the body of available pp elastic scattering data at 2.1 GeV the number of possible solutions is considerably reduced.

4 pages, 4 figures

References in corpus (3)

• Effective Field Theory for Few-Nucleon Systems
• The nucleon-nucleon interaction
• Nucleon-nucleon elastic scattering to 3 GeV

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