Vector analyzing power and cross section for reactions on 53Cr, 57Fe, 117Sn and 119Sn

Angular distributions of the vector analyzing power and the absolute cross section were measured for ( d , p ) reactions on the odd- A nuclei 53 Cr and 57 Fe at a deuteron energy of 10 MeV and on 117 Sn and 119 Sn at 12 MeV. It is shown that the separate cross section contributions for the different allowed total angular momenta j n of the captured neutron can be determined from the measurements. For transitions which are dominated by a single value of j n , the measurements are compared with distorted-wave Born approximation calculations. The energies of the 2 p 3 2 and 2 p 1 2 neutron single-particle states in 54 Cr and 58 Fe were determined, and the strength of the nuclear spin-orbit interaction was calculated. The vector analyzing power and the cross section were also measured for deuteron elastic scattering from each target nucleus in order to determine optical-model parameters for the DWBA calculations.