Yrast and near-yrast excitations up to high spin in 10048Cd52

The gamma decay of excited states in the nucleus ¹⁰⁰Cd, which is two proton holes and two neutrons away from doubly magic (N=Z=50) ¹⁰⁰Sn, has been studied with the Gammasphere array following the ⁴⁶Ti(⁵⁸Ni,2p2n) reaction at 215 MeV. Residues were identified by detection of evaporated charged particles in the Microball CsI array, by neutron detection in a set of liquid scintillator detectors, and by a tag on the delayed gamma-ray decay of the known 8⁺ isomeric state. The level scheme has been extended up to 20ℏ in angular momentum and to nearly 10 MeV in excitation energy. The results are compared with shell-model calculations.