The nucleon-nucleon J-matrix Inverse Scattering Potential JISP16 is applied
to elastic nucleon-deuteron (Nd) scattering and the deuteron breakup process at
the lab. nucleon energies up to 135 MeV. The formalism of the Faddeev equations
is used to obtain 3N scattering states. We compare predictions based on the
JISP16 force with data and with results based on various NN interactions: the
CD Bonn, the AV18, the chiral force with the semi-local regularization at the
5th order of the chiral expansion and with low-momentum interactions obtained
from the CD Bonn force as well as with the predictions from the combination of
the AV18 NN interaction and the Urbana IX 3N force. JISP16 provides a
satisfactory description of some observables at low energies but strong
deviations from data as well as from standard and chiral potential predictions
with increasing energy. However, there are also polarization observables at low
energies for which the JISP16 predictions differ from those based on the other
forces by a factor of two. The reason for such a behavior can be traced back to
the P-wave components of the JISP16 force. At higher energies the deviations
can be enhanced by an interference with higher partial waves and by the
properties of the JISP16 deuteron wave function. In addition, we compare the
energy and angular dependence of predictions based on the JISP16 force with the
results of the low-momentum forces obtained with different values of the
momentum cutoff parameter. We found that such low-momentum forces can be
employed to interpret the Nd elastic scattering data only below some specific
energy which depends on the cutoff parameter. Since JISP16 is defined in a
finite oscillator basis, it has properties similar to low momentum interactions
and its application to the description of Nd scattering data is limited to a
low momentum transfer region.Comment: 26 pages, 12 eps figures; Version accepted to Phys. Rev. C: text is
shortened, few figures regarding the nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering
observables are removed but a short discussion of the nucleon induced
deuteron breakup cross section is added. Conclusions remain unchange