Abstract An experiment with the aim to obtain information on the excited states of neutron-rich nuclei with N~82 was performed at RIBF/RIKEN as part of the HiCARI campaign. The method to identify nuclei on ion-by-ion basis, including charge-state identification, is presented. The Doppler correction technique was validated using the test case of ¹³¹In, based on the prompt πp_3/2 → πp_1/2 transition at 988 keV. Preliminary analysis of the ¹³⁰Cd spectrum is also presented.