A study of the n-n interaction from a complete experiment of the n + d break-up at 14.5 MeV

Results of the analysis of two complete experiments on ²H(n, nnp) at 14.5±0.1 MeV are given. In the first n-n final-state-interaction (f.s.i.) experiment (neutron lab angles θ₁ = θ₂ = +30°, n-n relative energy E_nn measured between 0 and ≈ 800 keV) about 4400 events were recorded. In the second n-p f.s.i. experiment (neutron lab angles θ₁ = +30°, θ₂ = −80°, and E_np ? 500 keV) about 2860 events were recorded. The analysis has been done by exact solutions of the Faddeev equations with separable potentials: the Amado model was extended using the Yamaguchi potential with charge-independent (a_nm = a_np) and with charge-dependent (a_nn = −16 fm, a_np = −23.7 fm) parameters. The results are: (a) the charge-independent (a_nn = −23.7 fm) model seems to give a better fit for the shape of the n-n f.s.i. peak, but (b) the two-nucleon separable potential calculations disagree by a factor ≈ 2 with the absolute cross sections measured for the f.s.i. peaks.