Structure of 57Fe studied with 56Fe(d, p)57Fe reactions

${}^{56}\text{Fe}\text{(}\text{d}\text{, p}\text{)}{}^{57}\text{Fe}$ reactions have been studied with 10 MeV vector polarized deuterons over the angular range 15° ≦ θ_p ≦ 80°. Angular distributions of the vector analysing power and the differential cross section have been measured for reactions leading to levels in ⁵⁷Fe. Distorted wave Born approximation calculations are compared to the measurements. The observed j-dependence of the vector analysing power results in eighteen new spin-parity assignments for levels in ⁵⁷Fe. Spectroscopic factors are extracted from the differential cross-section measurements. The results are compared to the predictions of the single-particle shell model and to models including collective structure.