Parity violation in electron-deuteron scattering I. Methodology and elastic scattering

In this paper, we present methodology for investigating theoretically parity violation in both the elastic and break-up channels of electron-deuteron scattering, restricting ourselves to energies in which non-relativistic expansions are allowed for nucleons. The deficiency in the standard impulse approximation related to gauge invariance is remedied by relating it to the “elementary-particle” treatment. Results for parity violation in elastic electrondeuteron scattering are presented and discussed.