Measurements of small angle elasticp→-d scattering at 796 MeV using a recoil method

The energy spectra of deuterons recoiling from a deuterium gas target bombarded by transversely polarized 796-MeV protons have been measured to obtain the differential cross sections, $\frac{d\sigma }{\mathrm{dt}}$, and analyzing powers, $A_y\mathrm{}\left(t\right)\mathrm{}$, for $\overrightarrow{\mathrm{p}}$-d elastic scattering over a range of laboratory angles from 4.53° to 13.02°, corresponding to a range of four-momentum transfer squared, $\mathrm{}\left|t\right|\mathrm{}$, from 0.013 to 0.108 Ge${\mathrm{V}}^2$/${\mathit{c}}^2$. Employing several sets of nucleon-nucleon, N-N, amplitudes obtained from N-N phase shift analyses, comparisons are made between the experimental data and the predictions of a multiple scattering theory. In this region of four-momentum transfer, $A_y$ is shown to depend almost entirely on the spin-independent and spin-orbit N-N amplitudes.