Nuclear-shape effects in the inelastic scattering of polarized deuterons at 56 MeV

Differential cross sections and vector analyzing powers for the deuteron elastic and inelastic scattering from /sup 24/Mg and /sup 28/Si have been measured at 56 MeV. The coupled-channels analysis has been performed to obtain the simultaneous fits to the elastic- and inelastic-scattering data. The dependence of the coupled-channels calculations on the shape of nuclei has been investigated in comparison with the proton inelastic scattering.