Gamma ray spectroscopy of ¹¹⁸Cd from fission data

Emergence and evolution of collective behaviors in nuclei is of prime importance in the quest to understand the nuclear many body problem. Transitional nuclei in A ∼ 100 are best candidates to study this evolution. In particular excitations in cadmium isotopes exhibit good interplay between single particle and collective degrees of freedom. In our effort to study some of these nuclei we have invoked ²³⁸U(¹⁸O,f) reaction. A number of neutron rich Cd and other isotopes were populated up to moderate spin in this reaction. We describe below our study from this reaction for ¹¹⁸Cd