Study of light charged particle emission from Pb-isotopes formed in n-induced reactions

Pb has always been the most important nucleus which is exclusively explored due to its doubly magic shell closure. Various endeavors involve the use of heavy ions as projectiles to investigate the decay of Pb isotopes. Simultaneously n-beams have also been used to explore the dynamics governing the various decay patterns of heavy mass compound systems. The reactions involving amalgamation of neutrons with Pb-isotopes play significant role not only in the domain of experimental studies but also provide the theoretical insight to investigate the nuclear structure and related dynamics. In view of this an attempt has been made to study the light charged particle emission from ²⁰⁹Pb* and ²⁰⁷Pb* formed in n-induced reactions over incident beam energy E_beam=14-21 MeV. The dynamics involved within the decay of ²⁰⁹Pb* via α-emission and ²⁰⁷Pb* via α-emission are explored using the Dynamical Cluster-decay Model (DCM) and the cross-sections have been addressed adequately by optimizing the neck-length parameter (ΔR)