Polarization transfer observables for proton inelastic scattering from 12C at 0°

Polarization transfer (PT) observables in the C-12(p,p') reaction at 0 degrees for 392 MeV protons have been measured. The excitation strengths are decomposed into the spin-flip part and the non-spin-flip part by using the obtained PT observables. The PT observables for excitation of the 1(+), T = 0 and 1(+), T = 1 states are compared with distorted wave impulse approximation calculations. The strength ratios of the isoscalar spin-dependent term to the isovector tensor term and the isovector tensor term to the isovector spin-dependent term are reasonably consistent with the Franey and Love interaction. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.