The break-up reactionp+d→p+p+n

The three-particle reactionp+d→p+p+n has been investigated at a deuteron bombarding energy of 52.0 MeV. Single counter experiments as well as coincidence measurements have been carried out. The laboratory angular distribution of the break-up reaction and the total break-up cross-section have been determined by means of the single counter experiments. The angular distribution for final-state interacting neutron-proton pairs was obtained by means of coincidence measurements. The coincidence experiments provide a strong evidence for very different shapes of the angular distributions for neutron-proton singlet and triplet final-state interaction.