Double differential cross sections between 0 • -12 • were measured for the 90 Zr(n, p) reaction at 293 MeV over a wide excitation energy range of 0-70 MeV. A multipole decomposition technique was applied to the present data as well as the previously obtained 90 Zr(p, n) data to extract the Gamow-Teller (GT) component from the continuum. The GT quenching factor Q was derived by using the obtained total GT strengths. The result is Q = 0.88 ± 0.06, not including an overall normalization uncertainty in the GT unit cross section of 16%.The (p, n) reaction at intermediate energies (T p > 100 MeV) provides a highly selective probe of spin-isospin excitations in nuclei due to the energy dependence of the isovector part of nucleon-nucleon (NN ) t-matrices [1]. The

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The angular distributions of the cross section, the proton analyzing power, and all proton polarization transfer coefficients of p ជ d elastic scattering were measured at 250 MeV. The range of center-of-mass angles was 10°-165°for the cross section and the analyzing power, and about 10°-95°for the polarization transfer coefficients. These are the first measurements of a complete set of proton polarization observables for p ជ d elastic scattering at intermediate energies. The present data are compared with theoretical predictions based on exact solutions of the three-nucleon Faddeev equations and modern realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials combined with three-nucleon forces ͑3NF͒, namely, the Tucson-Melbourne ͑TM͒ 2-exchange model, a modification thereof ͑TMЈ͒ closer to chiral symmetry, and the Urbana IX model. Large effects of the three-nucleon forces are predicted. The inclusion of the three-nucleon forces gives a good description of the cross section at angles below the minimum. However, appreciable discrepancies between the data and predictions remain at backward angles. For the spin observables the predictions of the TM 3NF model deviate strongly from the other two 3NF models, which are close together, except for K y yЈ. In the case of the analyzing power all 3NF models fail to describe the data at the upper half of the angular range. In the restricted measured angular range the polarization transfer coefficients are fairly well described by the TMЈ and Urbana IX 3NF models, whereas the TM 3NF model mostly fails. The transfer coefficient K y yЈ is best described by the Urbana IX but the theoretical description is still insufficient to reproduce the experimental data. These results call for a better understanding of the spin structure of the three-nucleon force and very likely for a full relativistic treatment of the three-nucleon continuum.

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