Analysis of the clustering in 212Po, 218Rn and 232U

Abstract We studied the ground state band properties of 212 Po, 218 Rn and 232 U using the binary cluster model. The nuclei are treated as a 208 Pb-core plus a cluster interacting via a local potential of Saxon–Woods type functional form whose parameters are derived from Michigan-3-Yukawa (M3Y) microscopic potential model. Further correction in the internal structure of the hybrid potential model is attributed to the nucleon distribution in the overlap region of the core-cluster system. Overall our calculated results are found to compare favourably well with available experimental data.