Inclusive electrodisintegration of polarised deuterons

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Abstract
The general structure of the asymmetries of longitudinally polarised electron scattering by deuterons with vector and tensor polarisations has been established for the process e-+d to e-+n+p using the structure function formalism and considering the deuteron as an elementary particle with a unit spin and a positive space parity. The analysis has been performed in terms of the one-photon approximation using the conservation of the hadron electromagnetic current and P-invariance of the hadron electromagnetic interaction. The inclusive scattering of longitudinally polarised electrons by a target with a vector polarisation is described by two real structure functions, while the scattering of unpolarised electrons by a target with a tensor polarisation is described by four structure functions. Both the vector and tensor target polarisations allow, in principle, studies of possible T-odd effects in hadron electrodynamics. The sensitivity of inclusive asymmetries to the neutron electric form factor and the spin deuteron wavefunction has also been investigated.