Polarized deuteron elastic scattering at 79 MeV and the effects of breakup channel coupling

We report angular distribution measurements of the cross section, the vector analyzing power ($A_y$), and two tensor analyzing powers [$A_{\mathrm{yy}}$ and $X_2=\frac{(2\mathrm{}{A}_{\mathrm{xx}}+A_{\mathrm{yy}})}{\sqrt{3}}$] for the elastic scattering of 79-MeV polarized deuterons from ${}_{}{}^{58}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Ni}$. These measurements are compared in detail with folding model calculations that include perturbative corrections for coupling to deuteron breakup channels.