Relativistic One-Nucleon Exchange for the Proton-Deuteron Backward Scattering

Abstract

The article is devoted to the relativistic study of elastic \(pd\) backward scattering based on the one-nucleon exchange diagram. Calculations are performed using relativistic deuteron wave functions obtained by solving the Bethe–Salpeter equation in the Minkowski space with relativistic separable potentials. The unpolarized differential cross section as well as some polarization observables of the reaction for initial proton momentum up to 7.3 GeV/c are calculated. The obtained results are compared with the calculations of other authors.