Collectivity of 98Pd

The N = 52 nucleus 98Pd was investigated at the Cologne TANDEM accelerator both with the Cologne plunger using the recoil distance Doppler‐shift method (RDDS) and with the Cologne HORUS spectrometer for a γγ angular correlation experiment. For the first time lifetimes of yrast states and highly excited low‐spin states were measured in 98Pd and the low‐spin level scheme was extended. From our data we were able to interpret 98Pd as a nucleus that exhibits some collective features, but is obviously much less collective than the neighboring N = 52 isotones 94Mo and 96Ru due to its closeness to doubly‐magic 100Sn.