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Prompt, in-beam $gamma$ rays following the reaction $^{170}$Yb + 142 MeV $^{28}$Si were measured at the ATLAS facility using 10 Compton-suppressed Ge detectors and the Fragment Mass Analyzer. Transitions in $^{194}$Po were identified and placed using $gamma$-ray singles and coincidence data gated on the mass of the evaporation residues. A level spectrum up to J$approx$10$hbar$ was established. The structure of $^{194}$Po is more collective than that observed in the heavier polonium isotopes and indicates that the structure has started to evolve towards the more collective nature expected for deformed nuclei.
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Results of a comparative analysis of the $^{214}$Po ($T_{1/2}= 163.47pm0.03$ $mu$s), $^{213}$Po ($T_{1/2}=3.705 pm 0.001$ $mu$s) and $^{212}$Po ($T_{1/2}=294.09pm0.07$ ns) half-life annular variation parameters are presented. It is shown that two independent sequential sets of the $^{214}$Po $tau$-values $(tauequiv T_{1/2})$ obtained in the spaced laboratories can be described by sinusoidal functions. The sinusoid curve with amplitude $A=(5.0 pm1.5) cdot 10^{-4}$, period $omega=(365pm 8)$ days, and phase $phi=(170 pm 7)$ days approximates the set of $^{214}$Po $tau$ values obtained at BNO INR RAS during the $sim$973 days starting on January 4, 2012. The function approximates a set of $tau$-values with a time duration of $sim1460$ days obtained at the KhNU has an amplitude $A=(4.9pm1.8)cdot10^{-4}$, a period $omega= (377pm13)$ days and a phase $phi=(77pm10)$ days. The $^{213}$Po $tau$-value set with a time duration of $sim1700$ days can be described by a sinusoidal function with an amplitude $A=(3.9pm1.2)cdot10^{-4}$, a period $omega= (370pm13)$ days and a phase $phi=(130pm9)$ days. The $^{212}$Po $tau$-value set with a time duration of $sim670$ days can be described by a sinusoidal function with an amplitude $A=(7.5pm1.6)cdot10^{-4}$, a period $omega= (375pm13)$ days and a phase $phi=(40pm10)$ days.
The $^{174}$Yb($^{29}$Si,5n) reaction at 148 MeV with thin targets was used to populate high-angular momentum states in $^{198}$Po. Resulting $gamma$ rays were observed with Gammasphere. A weakly-populated superdeformed band of 10 $gamma$-ray transitions was found and has been assigned to $^{198}$Po. This is the first observation of a SD band in the $A approx 190$ region in a nucleus with $Z > 83$. The ${cal J}^{(2)}$ of the new band is very similar to those of the yrast SD bands in $^{194}$Hg and $^{196}$Pb. The intensity profile suggests that this band is populated through states close to where the SD band crosses the yrast line and the angular momentum at which the fission process dominates.
The half-life of $^{212}$Po was measured with the highest up-to-date accuracy as $T_{1/2}=295.1(4)$ ns by using thorium-loaded liquid scintillator.
A device with the parent $^{229}$Th source was constructed to search for variations of the daughter $^{213}$Po half-life ($T_{1/2} = 4.2$ $mu$s). A solar-daily variation with amplitude $A_{So}=(5.3 pm 1.1) times 10^{-4}$, a lunar-daily variation with amplitude $A_L = (4.8 pm 2.1) times 10^{-4}$, and a sidereal-daily variation with amplitude $A_S = (4.2 pm 1.7) times 10^{-4}$ were found upon proceeding the data series over a 622-day interval (from July 2015 to March 2017). The $^{213}$Po half-life mean value is found to be $T_{1/2} = 3.705 pm 0.001$ $mu$s. The obtained half-life is in good agreement with some of the literature values obtained with great accuracy.
We have studied via in-beam $gamma$-ray spectroscopy $^{196}$Po and $^{198}$Po, which are the first neutron-deficient Po isotopes to exhibit a collective low-lying structure. The ratios of yrast state energies and the E2 branching ratios of transitions from non-yrast to yrast states are indicative of a low-lying vibrational structure. The onset of collective motion in these isotopes can be attributed to the opening of the neutron i$_{13/2}$ orbital at N$approx$112 and the resulting large overlap between the two valence protons in the h$_{9/2}$ orbital and the valence neutrons in the i$_{13/2}$ orbital.
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