Asymmetry in the Elastic Scattering of Polarized Protons by Deuterium

Asymmetries in the elastic scattering of polarized protons by deuterium have been measured at 419 Mev at proton center-of-mass angles from 47.9° to 115°. The inferred polarizations are -0.092±0.058 at 47.9°, -0.502±0.058 at 59°, -0.583±0.081 at 68°, -0.141±0.056 at 77.8°, -0.122±0.111 at 90°, -0.150±0.059 at 97°, -0.309±0.073 at 105°, and +0.174±0.059 at 115°. It is suggested that using the impulse approximation these results may serve as a test of nucleon-nucleon scattering phase shifts or, with proton-proton scattering data, may be used to obtain $I=0\mathrm{}$ nucleon-nucleon phase shifts.