Cross sections of 4He interaction with protons and 4He-p elastic scattering at 2.7 GeV/c

Abstract The 2m hydrogen bubble chamber was exposed to a separated beam of α-particles from the ITEP synchrotron. The momentum of the 4 He-nuclei beam averaged over the bubble-chamber fiducial volume was equal to 2.7 GeV/ c (the kinetic energy of the initial protons in the nuclear rest frame was T p = 220 MeV). The total and topological cross sections were measured as well as the cross section of separate 4 He-p interaction channels and the differential cross sections d σ d t of the elastic 4 He-p scattering. The experimental results have been compared with the data of the previous experiments and with the theoretical predictions based on the Glauber-Sitenko multiple-scattering theory.