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The high-energy elastic scattering cross sections of the deuteron are shown, because of the d-state admixture, to be strongly dependent on the polarization of the deuteron spin. The polarization dependence is shown to explain the absence of a pronounced minimum in the differential cross section for unpolarized deuterons. For polarized deuteron targets, on the other hand, the minimum should assume a clearly observable form.
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Franco et al. (1969) studied this question.
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