Spectroscopy of 62Ni with the 63Ni(d vector,p) reaction

Differential cross sections, vector and tensor analysing powers have been measured for the 61Ni(d,p) reaction at a deuteron energy of 12.3 MeV. Most of the 30 transitions observed below 8.5 MeV excitation are dominated by a single j-value, which was determined from behaviour of the analysing power data. For a number of transitions it was possible to make unambiguous j-assignment relying on the established j-dependence of the T22 tensor analysing power. The deduced spectroscopic factors indicate that the full strength of neutron transfer to the (2p, 1fsub(5/2)) and 1gsub(9/2) orbits was found and seven 5/2+ transitions were located above 5.3 MeV. The separated strengths of the 3/2-, 1/2- and 5/2- transitions are compared with shell-model calculations for the low-lying states of 62Ni. (orig.)