  The deuteron fragmentation by fast protons has been studied both near the
kinematics of quasi-free proton - proton scattering and far away from it. We
have concentrated on the interplay between different reaction mechanisms
associated with the antisymmetrization of the initial and final states and
rescattering contributions. A multiple-scattering-expansion technique has been
applied to evaluate the reaction amplitude. An essential element of this
approach in the momentum representation is the use of the effective nucleon-
nucleon interaction constructed by Love and Franey as a two-body t-matrix for
the incident proton scattering on a bound nucleon in the deuteron. Along with
the five-fold cross sections, the proton analyzing power and the deuteron
analyzing powers have been calculated as function of the momentum of the
outgoing fast proton. The results are compared with the data obtained by the
Gatchina-Saclay collaboration.
