Abstract
For individual helicity amplitudes, asymptotic QCD gives results which differ from standard nuclear physics. For the deuteron electromagnetic form factors, QCD predicts ${G}_{C}=(\frac{{Q}^{2}}{6{M}_{d}^{2}}){G}_{Q}$ at high ${Q}^{2}$. This gives a result for the polarization ratio $\frac{{p}_{x}}{{p}_{\mathrm{xz}}}$ which is dramatically different from predictions of several standard deuteron wave functions. Polarization-transfer measurements of the deuteron form factor in this ${Q}^{2}$ region are therefore a sensitive test of the validity of perturbative QCD for exclusive processes at these momentum transfers.
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