Poletti, A. RDracoulis, G. D.Byrne, A. P.Stuchbery, A. E.Fabricius, B.Kibèdi, T.Davidson, P. M.2025-12-172025-12-170375-9474ORCID:/0000-0002-9205-7500/work/165894133ORCID:/0000-0002-0198-9901/work/165894361https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733796169The properties of high-spin states in 208Po have been investigated using the 204Hg(9Be,5n) 208Po reaction at a bombarding energy of 62 MeV. Decay properties for states in 208Po up to an excitation energy of 9643 keV and spins up to J = 24 have been deduced. The level scheme is compared with predictions of multi-particle shell-model calculations and evidence is presented that the core-excited states intrude into the decay sequence at an excitation energy near 6500 keV, although they do not form isomers. Above 7.5 MeV the yrast line is dominated by core-excited states.22en1997-03-1710.1016/S0375-9474(96)00428-90031575724