Elastic Scattering of Negative Pions from Deuterons at 2.01, 3.77, and 5.53 GeV/c

Abstract

The differential cross sections for the elastic scattering of negative pions by deuterons have been measured for 2.01-, 3.77-, and 5.53-GeV/c incident pion momenta, over an interval of the squared four-momentum transfer from -0.25 ${(\mathrm{G}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{V}/\mathit{c})}^2$ to ∼-1.0 ${(\mathrm{G}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{V}/\mathit{c})}^2$. The results are consistent with calculations based on a Glauber model of the scattering process.