SALIENT FEATURES OF DEUTERON STUDY

From the study of Deuteron we came to know about the

properties of nucleon - nucleon interaction
1. Around 40 MeV of Well depth is required for producing
Deuteron bound ground state
2. The nuclear force is mainly Central in nature.
3. But Electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole moment of
deuteron impart the non-central character to the
nuclear force.
4. Due to the non existence of excited state in deuteron
we are limited to study the nuclear for only in l=0 and
S=1 state only.
This information is very limited.
SO WHAT IS NEEDED
To study the nucleon -nucleon interaction in different
configurations i.e. for different values of l and s we perform
nucleon - nucleon scattering experiments.
In the Scattering experiments beam of nucleons is scattered
from target nucleons. So that we can study the properties of
different scattering state formed during the scattering of
particles.
Scattering experiments concluded that nuclear forces are
1. Spin dependent
2. Show exchange character
3. Attractive as well as repulsive in nature
4. Charge independent
5. Charge symmetric