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Observables in elastic proton-deuteron scattering are sensitive probes of the nucleon-nucleon interaction and three-nucleon force effects. The present experimental data base for this reaction is large, but contains a large discrepancy between data sets for the differential cross section taken at 135 MeV/nucleon by two experimental research groups. This paper reviews the background of this problem and presents new data taken at KVI. The nucleon-nucleon potential (NNP) has been studied extensively by investigating the properties of bound nuclear systems, and, in more detail, via a comparison of high-precision two-nucleon scattering data with modern potentials based on the exchange of bosons [1,2,3]. A few of the modern NNPs were facilitated by a partialwave analysis (PWA), that provides a nearly modelindependent analysis of the available scattering data [4]. The modern NNPs reproduce the world data base with a reduced chi-square close to one and have, therefore, been accepted as high-quality benchmark potentials. The precision of modern NNPs has given confidence to study in detail the three-nucleon potential (3NP) which was already predicted in 1939 by Primakoff and Wilson [5]. Compelling evidence of 3NP effects came from various recent theoretical and experimental studies. For example, for light nuclei, Green's function Monte-Carlo calculations employing the high-quality NNPs clearly underestimate the experimental binding energies [2], and, therefore, show that NNPs are not sufficient to describe the three-nucleon and heavier systems accurately. In the last decade, high-precision data at intermediate energies in elastic Nd and dN scattering [6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23] for a large energy range together with rigorous Faddeev calculations [24] * Electronic address: ramazani@kvi.nl † Electronic address: messchendorp@kvi.nl for the three-nucleon system have proven to be a sensitive tool to study the 3NP. In particular, a large sensitivity to 3NP effects exists in the minimum of the differential cross section [25,26]. Precision data for a large energy interval for the differential cross section and analyzing power came from recent experimental studies at KVI [7,8,9], RIKEN [10] and RCNP [12]. All these experiments had one common energy of 135 MeV/nucleon. Strikingly, the cross sections obtained at KVI were found to be significantly larger than those measured at RIKEN and at RCNP. The KVI data show significant deviation from predictions of state-of-the-art Faddeev calculations incorporating modern NNPs and 3NPs at this energy, whereas the results obtained at RIKEN and RCNP imply that the cross section can be described reasonably well exploiting the same potentials.This paper presents the results of a new measurement of the differential cross sections of the reaction 2 H( p, d)p at a proton-beam energy of 135 MeV, taken to provide additional data at 135 MeV/nucleon. These results are compared with the previously published data taken at intermediate energies. The data are obtained at KVI using a ne...

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The 28 Si͑a, 8 He͒ 24 Si reaction has been used to measure the energies of the first two excited states in 24 Si. The excitation energies were found to be 1.879 6 0.011 and 3.441 6 0.010 MeV. These data allow for the first time the calculation of the stellar reaction rate of 23 Al͑ p, g͒ 24 Si on the basis of experimental information. This reaction is of considerable interest, since it might lead to a decrease of the 22 Na production in nova explosions, and solve the discrepancy between the 22 Na yield predictions of nova models and recent COMPTEL observations. We show, however, that the temperatures and densities required for a significantly reduced 22 Na yield are not reached in current nova models. [S0031-9007(97)04602-4]