PARITY VIOLATION IN QUASI-FREE ELECTRON-SCATTERING OFF THE DEUTERON

For deuteron electroweak disintegration, parity violating effects are investigated which arise from the interference of gamma and Z exchange as well as from the hadronic sector via a small parity violating comp onent in the deuteron. The general formalism for the differential cros s section and polarization observables of electromagnetic deuteron dis integration is extended to incorporate parity violating contributions. Formal expressions for the additional structure functions are derived . Results are presented for these parity violating structure functions for quasifree kinematics neglecting final state interaction and two-b ody effects. Both types of parity violating contributions to the asymm etry of the inclusive reaction with respect to longitudinally polarize d electrons are evaluated, The one from parity violating deuteron comp onents is negligible over the whole range of momentum transfers consid ered. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.