The scattering of neutrons by deuterons at high energies

Abstract

Born’s approximation has been used to calculate total elastic and inelastic cross-sections and angular distributions for the scattering of neutrons by deuterons at incident energies of 100, 200 and 300 MeV. The nuclear potential has been taken to be a mixture of central and non-central interactions of the type √ 12 = I 12 (1 - 1/2 g + 1/2 g σ 1 σ 2 + γS 12 ) V(r) , where S 12 = r -2 3σ 1 . rσ 2 . r-σ 1 . σ 2 . Four types of isotopic factor I 12 , giving exchange properties of the neutral, charge exchange, symmetrical and Serber theories, have been investigated. The effect on the scattering of including the D wave of the ground state of the deuteron has been estimated.