Spin Observables of Proton–Deuteron Elastic Scattering at SPD NICA Energies within the Glauber Model and pN Amplitudes

Abstract

A systematic analysis of nucleon-nucleon scattering amplitudes is available up to a laboratory energy of $$3$$ GeV in case of the $$pp$$ system and up to $$1.2$$ GeV for $$pn$$ . At higher energies there is only incomplete experimental information on $$pp$$ elastic scattering, whereas data for the $$pn$$ system are very scarce. We apply the spin-dependent Glauber theory to calculate spin observables of $$pd$$ elastic scattering at $$3$$ – $$50$$ GeV/c using $$pp$$ amplitudes available in the literature and parametrized within the Regge formalism. The calculated vector $$A_{y}^{p}$$ , $$A_{y}^{d}$$ and tensor $${{A}_{{xx}}}$$ , $${{A}_{{yy}}}$$ analyzing powers and the spin-correlation coefficients $${{C}_{{y,y}}}$$ , $${{C}_{{x,x}}}$$ , $${{C}_{{yy,y}}}$$ , $${{C}_{{xx,y}}}$$ can be measured at SPD NICA and, thus, will provide a test of the used $$pN$$ amplitudes.