D-Wave Effects in High-Energy Proton-Deuteron Scattering

Abstract

Effects due to the $D$-wave component of the deuteron wave function in high-energy proton-deuteron scattering are investigated. Although negligible for most values of momentum transfer, they are quite significant in the "dip" region where the $S$-wave single-and double-scattering contributions interfere destructively. Here the $D$-wave contributions are large enough to fill in the dip, turning it into a shoulder, without the need for phase variation or spin dependence in the nucleon-nucleon amplitudes.