Measurement of the Angular Distribution of Tensor Polarization in Pion-Deuteron Elastic Scattering

R. J. Holt, J. R. Specht, K. Stephenson, B. Zeidman, James S. Frank, M. J. Leitch, J. D. Moses, E.J. Stephenson, R. M. Laszewski

Physical Review Letters · 1981 · 66 citations · 9 references

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Abstract

The angular dependence of the deuteron tensor polarization ${t}_{20}$ in $\ensuremath{\pi}\ensuremath{-}d$ elastic scattering has been measured for the first time. The results, at an incident pion energy of 142 MeV, are found to be in disagreement with all present theoretical predictions.

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