Proton-deuteron elastic scattering from 2.5 to 22.7 MeV

We present the results of a calculation of differential cross sections and polarization observables for proton-deuteron elastic scattering, for proton laboratory energies from 2.5 to 22.7 MeV. The Paris potential parametrization of the nuclear force is used. As solution method for the charged-composite particle equations the “screening and renormalization approach” is adopted which allows one to correctly take into account the Coulomb repulsion between the two protons. Comparison is made with the precise experimental data of Sagara et al. [Phys. Rev. C 50, 576 (1994)] and of Sperison et al. [Nucl. Phys. A422, 81 (1984)].