Investigation of the Spin Dependence in the Deuteron-Nucleus Interaction

Abstract

Measurements of the cross section, the vector analyzing power, and the three tensor analyzing powers have been made for deuteron elastic scattering from ${}_{}{}^{90}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Zr}$ at 5.5 MeV. The measurements are explained by an optical-model potential whose spin-dependent parts are calculated from the nucleon-nucleus potential. The predicted spin-orbit potential, which is considerably different from the potentials used in previous phenomenological analyses, also gives excellent agreement with the vector analyzing power at 9 MeV.