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

We studied the ground state band properties of 212Po, 218Rn and 232U using the binary cluster model. The nuclei are treated as a 208Pb-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.