Polarization as an instrument to explore the phenomenology and dynamics of vector spaces. [6 GeV]

It is shown on the example of an extensive set of polarization data of p-p elastic scattering at 6 GeV/c and t = -0.6 GeV/sup 2//c/sup 2/ that the careful choice of polarization formalisms to simplify the relationship between observables and amplitudes that nevertheless maintains a maximal amount of flexibility can enormously simplify the determination of the amplitudes as well as can yield clues to the dynamics underlying a reaction in atomic, nuclear, or high energy physics. 2 figures, 2 tables