POLARIZATION TRANSFER IN ELASTIC P-D SCATTERING AT EP=22.7 MEV

The proton-deuteron elastic scattering has been investigated at E(p) = 22.7 MeV by comparison of rigorous Faddeev calculations with experimental results. From the calculations it was found that polarization transfer coefficients are more sensitive to details of the nucleon-nucleon potentials than the analyzing powers. Therefore we measured the proton to proton transfer coefficients K(y)y' and K(z)x'. The observable most sensitive to the tensor force is K(y)y'. The angular distributions of K(y)y' and, to a smaller extent, K(z)x' clearly favour the Bonn A potential.