Polarization inp-C12Elastic Scattering

Abstract

A systematic investigation has been carried out on the angular dependence of the polarization resulting from the elastic scattering of protons by ${\mathrm{C}}^{12}$ nuclei, at laboratory angles ranging from 45 to 135° for proton energies between 3.78 and 4.66 MeV. The results are somewhat different from the predictions of phase-shift analysis of elastic-scattering angular distributions. It was found that this disagreement may be explained by making small changes in the phase shifts without seriously affecting the fit to the angular distributions.