Study of the three-nucleon continuum with realistic NN interactions

Nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering and nucleon induced deuteron breakup were studied in the energy range of the incoming nucleon Elab=10+70 MeV. Rigorous Faddeev three-nucleon continuum calculations were performed with realistic, meson-exchange based on nucleon-nucleon interactions. Predictions gained with the Paris or Bonn potentials were compared with existing experimental data. For some elastic scattering observables very good quantitative description results are obtained. It was shown that careful study of particular elastic scattering polarization observables will play a role to nail down unsettled nucleon-nucleon force properties, which remain open by present day 2N experimental data. To such properties belong f.e. the charge independence breaking of the NN interaction in 3p waves or the proper strength of the 3S1-3D1 tensor force. Kinematically complete experimental data for various breakup configurations have been analysed. Significant discrepancies between theory and experiment found for some configurations can probably be attributed to the action of the 3-nucleon force. 97 refs., 7 figs. (author)