Decay of heavy and superheavy nuclei formed in a variety of nuclear reactions

Nuclear physics provides a doorway to numerous research domains including nuclear engineering, nuclear medicines, radioactive dating and so on but the foremost and significant area is nuclear reactions. The novelty of using a variety of projectiles is in the fact that it leads to the formation of a variety of compound nuclei (CN) covering a broader region of the periodic table and provides an opportunity to explore their dynamical behavior. The variation of decay barrier height, potential energy surfaces, and barrier-lowering effects etc. are analyzed to extract a better picture of the dynamics involved. A possible contribution for the, not yet observed, fusion-fission component constituting both heavy mass and asymmetric mass fragments is predicted. The α-decay half-lives of ²⁹⁴118, and its subsequent ²⁹⁰116 and ²⁸⁶114 parents occurring in the α-decay chain, are addressed via preformed cluster model (PCM) for ground state analysis T=0 and T≠0 considerations. The competition of α-decay with other possible heavy cluster emissions from all the parents in the α-decay chain is also probed here