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Few-nucleon systems can be used as fundamental laboratories for studying details of the nuclear force effects. We performed a series of deuteron-deuteron scattering experiments at intermediate energies. The experiments exploited BINA and BBS experimental setups and polarized deuteron beams with kinetic energies of 65 and 90 MeV/nucleon. These experiments aim to measure differential cross sections, vector and tensor analyzing powers of all available reaction channels in deuteron-deuteron scattering. With these data we will provide a systematic database, which will be used to test present theoretical approximations and upcoming ab-initio calculations in four-nucleon system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

High-precision measurements of the proton-deuteron elastic and break-up reaction have been performed in the past at KVI and elsewhere with the aim to study three-nucleon force (3NF) effects. In the present work, we explored 3NF effects in the break-up scattering process by performing a measurement of vector analyzing powers and differential cross sections using a 135 MeV polarized-proton beam impinging on a liquid-deuterium target. For this study, we used a new experimental setup, Big Instrument for Nuclear-polarization Analysis, BINA, which covers almost the entire kinematical phase space of the break-up reaction. The results are interpreted with the help of state-of-the-art Faddeev calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A large set of high precision cross sections, vector Ax, Ay and tensor Axx, Axy, Ayy analyzing powers for the $^1 H(\vec d, pp)n$ breakup reaction were measured at 130 MeV beam energy with the detection system covering a large part of the phase space. Results are compared with rigorous theoretical calculations employing various models of the three-nucleon system dynamics. The cross section data allowed to establish evidence for three-nucleon force contributions and to confirm predictions of sizable effect of the Coulomb force in the breakup reaction. Analyzing power data are generally quite well described by theoretical predictions even with pure NN interactions. However, in some regions discrepancies has been observed for tensor analyzing powers, only rarely cured by inclusion of the three nucleon force. This indicates incompletness of the present-day treatment of the spin part of three nucleon system dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rich sets of high precision cross sections, vector and tensor analyzing powers for the $^1 H(\vec d,pp)n$ breakup reaction were measured at 130 and 100 MeV beam energy with the use of detection systems covering large parts of the phase space. The cross section data allowed to establish evidences for three-nucleon force contributions and to confirm predictions of sizable effect of the Coulomb force in the breakup reaction. Analyzing power data are generally quite well described by theoretical predictions even with pure nucleon-nucleon interactions. However, in some regions discrepancies has been observed for tensor analyzing powers at 130 MeV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]