Study of reactions with neutron production in pp and pd collisions at 1 GeV

Absolute doubly differential cross sections for production of neutrons of energy 350--1000 MeV on bombardment of hydrogen and deuterium with 1-GeV protons have been measured at angles 4, 7.5, 11.3, and 13.2/sup 0/. The neutron energy was determined by the time-of-flight method with utilization of the time microstructure of the accelerator beam. Cross sections for neutron production in reactions with meson production were obtained. It is noted that the dominant process in these reactions is the formation of the triangle-open(1232) isobar in the intermediate state. Cross sections for quasielastic knockout of neutrons from deuterium were determined. The contribution of spin-dependent amplitudes to the pn..-->..np charge-exchange cross section was estimated an an angle 0/sup 0/.