Abstract
The formalism developed earlier for elastic pd scattering on the basis of Glauber theory with allowance for a total spin dependence is modified by replacing pN amplitudes by amplitudes for N12C scattering and is applied to elastic deuteron scattering on the 12C nucleus. The amplitudes for elastic N12C scattering are obtained within the optical model. Respective numerical calculations performed at the kinetic deuteron-beam energy of 270 MeV lead to results that agree well with data on the differential cross section for d12C scattering into the forward hemisphere, but the calculated spin observable A agrees with experimental data only qualitatively.