Polarization effects in deuteron electrodisintegration: T-odd proton polarization

A general parametrization of the polarization vector of protons produced in inelastic electron-deuteron scattering, d(e, e'p)n and n(e, e'p)n, is derived on the basis of the formalism of structure functions. A relativistic version of the impulse approximation with unitarization of the multipole amplitudes of the reaction gamma*d-->np is employed to estimate the components of proton polarization. The relativistic approach makes it possible to consider effects of final-state np interaction by using the phase shifts for nucleon-nucleon scattering. The sensitivity of various components of proton polarization to the choice of deuteron wave function and to the contribution of various gamma*d-->np mechanisms, including the excitation of possible dibaryon resonances, is investigated.