The 3H + p → p + n + d reaction at a tritium momentum of 5 GeV/c

Using a liquid hydrogen bubble chamber of the ITEP, 80 cm in diameter, a study was made of the 3H + p → p + n + d reaction with an incident momentum of 5 GeV/c for the tritium nuclei. The reaction cross section was 20.4 ± 0.2 mb. The angular, momentum and mass distributions of the reaction products in the 4π geometry have been obtained. We have separated the phase-space regions corresponding to quasi-free pn scattering and to the final-state Nd interaction. In the region of quasi-free pn scattering various experimental spectra are compared with the theoretical predictions, by using pole diagrams with nuclear vertex functions for three NN potentials: the Yamaguchi potential, the RSC potential and the potential in the quark-compound bag model. In the mass spectra of pn, pd and nd systems no evidence for the exhibition of two- and three-baryon resonances has been obtained.