Abstract
Polarization effects in the elastic lepton-deuteron scattering process are studied in the one-photon-exchange approximation within the limit of zero lepton mass. Numerical estimations for the spin asymmetries caused by a tensor polarized deuteron target are given. The estimated results are analyzed at different values of lepton beam energy and scattering angle. The sensitivity of the obtained results to the choice of realistic
NN
potential used for the deuteron wave function is investigated. We found a considerable dependence of the results on the realistic deuteron wave functions at incident beam energies greater than 3 fm
-
1
and scattering angles greater than 30
∘
.