Phenomenological Non-Local Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions and the Neutron-Deuteron Break-Up Process

Abstract

Phenomenological “inside non-local, outside Yukawa-tail”N-N interactions, which fit the N-N data and produce the correct triton binding energy, are tested in the n-d break-up process at bombarding energies of 10.5, 13, and 19 MeV. The sensitivity of measurable quantities to the type and to the components of the N-N interactions is investigated. In some kinematic regions the break-up nucleon vector-analyzing power shows a strong sensitivity to the details of the triplet P-wave interactions.