Elastic Deuteron Scattering on the 12C Nucleus within a Three-Body Model

The formalism developed earlier for elastic pd scattering on the basis of Glauber theory with allowance for a total spin dependence is modified by replacing pN amplitudes by amplitudes for N 12 C scattering and is applied to elastic deuteron scattering on the 12 C nucleus. The amplitudes for elastic N 12 C scattering are obtained within the optical model. Respective numerical calculations performed at the kinetic deuteron-beam energy of 270 MeV lead to results that agree well with data on the differential cross section for d 12 C scattering into the forward hemisphere, but the calculated spin observable A y d agrees with experimental data only qualitatively.