Search for three-body force effects in the alpha-induced break-up of deuterons at low energies

Renewed interests are being paid, on the existence and manifestation of three-body force (3BF) effects in nuclear scattering as well as bound state studies, both experimentally and theoretically. From theoretical point of view, Faddeev type rigorous theoretical calculations (FT) are best suited for examining and explaining the experimental kinematically complete three-body correlation cross sections. However, there are cases of spectacular agreement as well as strong disagreement and thus calls for further investigation. Present article is an attempt to better understand an existing set of kinematically complete experimental data on the break-up of deuterons by alpha particles at E_d(inc)=17 MeV, at judiciously chosen correlated pair of angles (θ_α,θp)=((30°,82.8°), satisfying the condition of collinearity, the latter being prescribed as a sensible kinematic region of the probable 3BF effects