Properties of low-spin states in ${}^{114}\mathrm{Cd}$ have been studied with the ${(n,n}^{\prime }\gamma )$ reaction. $\gamma$-ray angular distributions and excitation functions have been used to characterize the decays of the excited levels, and level lifetimes have been obtained with the Doppler-shift attenuation method. The one-phonon, mixed-symmetry strength is found to be concentrated in the $2_6^{+}$ state, which exhibits a strong $M1\mathrm{}$ transition to the first-excited $2^{+}$ state and a weak $E2\mathrm{}$ transition to the ground state. The data agree well with expectations of the neutron-proton interacting boson model.

• Received 6 December 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.67.034319