On Jastrow's Interaction and the Elastic Scattering of High Energy Protons by Deuterons

An approximate method has been used to calculate the elastic total and differential cross sections for p-d scattering, at incident proton energies of 150 and 240 MeV A nuclear interaction has been assumed of a type suggested by Jastrow, containing an infinite repulsive core in singlet two-body states Of the various phenomenological interactions, this agrees about the best with the high energy n-p and p-p scattering data The calculated angular distribution near 90°, in the centre-of-mass system, is found to be of the right order of magnitude, but agreement with experiment in the forward and backward directions is poor An explanation of this result is suggested.