  A measurement of vector analyzing powers in elastic deuteron-carbon
scattering has been performed at the Cooler Synchrotron COSY of
Forschungszentrum J\"ulich, Germany. Seven kinetic beam energies between 170
and 380 MeV have been used. A vector-polarized beam from a polarized deuteron
source was injected, accelerated to the final desired energy and stored in
COSY. A thin needle-shaped diamond strip was used as a carbon target, onto
which the beam was slowly steered. Elastically scattered deuterons were
identified in the forward direction using various layers of scintillators and
straw tubes. Where data exist in the literature (at 200 and 270 MeV), excellent
agreement of the angular shape was found. The beam polarization of the
presented data was deduced by fitting the absolute scale of the analyzing power
to these references. Our results extend the world data set and are necessary
for polarimetry of future electric dipole moment searches at storage rings.
They will as well serve as an input for theoretical description of polarized
hadron-hadron scattering.
