Collective excitation ofPd101following (heavy ion,xn) reactions

States excited by the ${}_{}{}^{99}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Ru}(\alpha ,2n\gamma ){}_{}{}^{101}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Pd}$, ${}_{}{}^{88}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Sr}({}_{}{}^{16}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{O},3n\gamma ){}_{}{}^{101}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Pd}$, and ${}_{}{}^{92}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Zr}({}_{}{}^{12}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{C},3n\gamma ){}_{}{}^{101}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Pd}$ reactions have been studied by measuring the $\gamma$-ray yield as a function of incident projectile energy, $\gamma -\gamma$ coincidences, $\gamma$-ray angular distributions, and $\gamma$-ray linear polarizations. Three intense $\gamma$-ray cascades were observed. These cascades are produced by quasirotational bands built on the 5/$2^{+}$, 7/$2^{+}$, and 11/$2^{-}$ intrinsic states of the nucleus. A decay scheme is given which includes states with energy up to 6488 keV and angular momentum up to 35/2. The quasirotational bands seen in ${}_{}{}^{101}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Pd}$ are similar to the bands in the adjacent even-even nuclei which suggests that this odd-$A$ nucleus can be described as a particle decoupled from an even-even core. A cascade of seven $\gamma$ rays in ${}_{}{}^{102}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Rh}$ was also observed following the ${}_{}{}^{92}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Zr}({}_{}{}^{12}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{C},p n){}_{}{}^{102}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Rh}$ reaction.