Proposal to Confirm the Strong van der Waals Interaction in Low Energy p-p Scattering

Abstract

It is shown that the low energy p-p data, especially the Wisconsin data, already indicate the existence of the strong long range force acting between the nucleons, which is expected to occur in the magnetic monopole model of hadrons. In arriving at the conclusion, the detailed information concerning the two-pion exchange spectrum is not required. It is proposed to measure accurately the angular distribution of proton-proton scattering at low energy (0.1 MeV≲T ≲25 MeV), and to estimate the power β of the long range tail of the extra nuclear potential: V^extra(r) ∼-Cr^-β.