Levels in 149Nd studied with the reaction

The 150 Nd(d,t) 149 Nd reaction has been studied with 16 MeV deuterons with a vector polarization of ~0.75 from the McMaster University tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. Measurements were made at 11 angles from 5.5 to 37.5° using a magnetic spectrograph equipped with photographic emulsions in the focal plane. The measured analyzing powers which are well described with standard distorted wave Born approximation calculations, made it possible to give unambiguous assignments for 14 states for which spin information was previously conflicting, incomplete, or lacking.