A study of nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering in configuration space

摘要

A new computational method for solving the nucleon-deuteron breakupscattering problem has been applied to study the elastic neutron- andproton-deuteron scattering on the basis of the configuration-spaceFaddeev-Noyes-Noble-Merkuriev equations. This method is based on thespline-decomposition in the angular variable and on a generalization of theNumerov method for the hyperradius. The Merkuriev-Gignoux-Laverne approach hasbeen generalized for arbitrary nucleon-nucleon potentials and with an arbitrarynumber of partial waves. The nucleon-deuteron observables at the incidentnucleon energy 3 MeV have been calculated using the charge-independent AV14nucleon-nucleon potential including the Coulomb force for the proton-deuteronscattering. Results have been compared with those of other authors and withexperimental proton-deuteron scattering data.