Elastic scattering of 0.3 MeV to 8 MeV deuterons by3He and level parameters in5Li

The elastic 3He+d cross section of relevance for knock-on effects in radio frequency heated (3He)D plasmas

“…Nuclear interaction effects can be expected to show up for increasing scattering angle which would lead to cross section suppression, such as observed, due to destructive interference between nuclear and the Coulomb scattering amplitudes [7]. This calculated Coulomb cross section also fits the data [10] at the next lowest energy of E d = 459 keV (Fig. 4).…”

“…We have found six references of which five [9][10][11][12][13] were used in the data base of 21 different projectile energies in the range E d = 0.325 to 11.5 MeV as summarized in Table 1. The covered angular ranges varied with energy and was typically limited to h CM % 40-130°for E d 6 1.5 MeV but increased with energy to cover the range h CM % 10-170°at E d = 11.5 MeV.…”