Investigation of the three-nucleon system by pd elastic scattering with polarized protons and deuterons

Abstract Angular distributions of cross section and analyzing power A y of protons scattered on deuterium were measured between 8.5 and 22.7 MeV. For the corresponding energy of incident deuterons scattered from hydrogen, angular distributions of the deuteron vector and tensor analyzing powers A y d , A yy and A xx were measured at 6 energies between 17 and 45.4 MeV. The proton and deuteron data together with corresponding data at lower energies are analyzed in terms of Legendre polynomials. The energy dependence of the resulting coefficients are discussed.