Measurements of the Analyzing Power of Neutron-Helium-3 Elastic Scattering Between 1.60 and 5.54 MeV

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Tornow, Werner

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Esterline, James

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2012-05-25T20:22:06Z

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2012-05-25T20:22:06Z

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2012

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Physics

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An experiment measuring the analyzing power Ay(θ) for neutron–helium-3 (n-3He) elastic scattering over broad angular distributions for a range of incident neutron energies from 1.60 to 5.54 MeV has been conducted at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory. These measurements represent an effort to resolve the long-standing discrepancy between experiment and theory in low-energy three-nucleon analyzing powers, through the evaluation of analyzing powers in the four-nucleon systems, which are expected to exhibit sensitivities not accessible with fewer nucleons. The present work is described in terms of the experimental setup and data reduction techniques; a comparison of the results with rigorous calculations using both nucleon-nucleon and, as recently has become available, three-nucleon potential models is presented. While a discrepancy between calculation and measurement was observed, at low energies substantially better agreement was achieved than in related measurements of the proton–helium-3 (p-3He) analyzing power, suggesting a sizeable dependence on isospin in the four-nucleon systems.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/5608

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Nuclear physics

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Physics

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analyzing power

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few-nucleon systems

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Helium-3

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Neutron

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Measurements of the Analyzing Power of Neutron-Helium-3 Elastic Scattering Between 1.60 and 5.54 MeV

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Dissertation

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