Photodisintegration of aligned deuterons at astrophysical energies using linearly polarized photons

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Following the model independent approach to deuteron photodisintegration with linearly polarized γ-rays, we show that the measurements of the tensor analyzing powers on aligned deuterons along with the differential cross section involve five different linear combinations of the isovector E1ʲᵥ; j=0,1,2 amplitudes interfering with the isoscalar M1ₛ and E2ₛ amplitudes. This is of current interest in view of the recent experimental finding blackston1 that the three E1ʲᵥ amplitudes are distinct and also the reported experimental observation sawatzky on the front-back (polar angle) asymmetry in the differential cross section.