Elastic scattering of 2 GeV polarized deuterons from hydrogen

Large deuteron vector and tensor asymmetries have been measured for the first time at imtermediate energies. We have used a 2 GeV polarized deuteron beam whose tensor and vector components were 0.75 and 0.25, respectively. The tensor and vector quantities P_yyandP_yy were extracted from data obtained with the beam polarization normal to the scattering plane, and P_xx was obtained when the polarization was precessed into the scattering plane. Analysis of the data using multiple scattering theory demonstrates the considerable sensitivity of the data to the quadrupole form factor of the deuteron and to the double spin flip components of the NN amplitudes.