Influence of Nucleon Structure on Tensor and Vector Analyzing Powers in Elastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering

Influence of nucleon structure on single tensor-deuteron and double beam-vector-deuteron analyzing powers in the elastic electron-deuteron scattering process is investigated. We report numerical results for the tensor-deuteron (T-20, T-21, and T-22), and beam-vector-deuteron (T-10 and T-11) analyzing powers as functions of the four-momentum transfer square Q(2) and the electron scattering angle in the laboratory frame theta(e). This is made possible with the advent of recent polarization measurements with polarized electron beams and/or polarized deuteron targets at MIT-Bates, JLab, NIKHEF, VEPP-2, and VEPP-3. We found that the predicted results for T-21, T-22, T-10, and T-11 are sensitive to the nucleon electromagnetic form factors. On the contrary, the T-20 analyzing power is found to be almost independent on the actual nucleon form factors. The predicted analyzing powers are compared with the available experimental data and a satisfactory agreement is obtained.