S.M. WyngaardtH. W. GroenewaldT.T IbrahimJ. NdayishimyeS.M. Perez2021-09-132021-09-132010Wyngaardt, S.M., Groenewald, H.W., Ibrahim, T.T., Ndayishimye, J. & Perez, S.M., 2010, Relativistic mean field formulation of clustering in heavy nuclei, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 205, Institute of Physics Publishing17426596http://hdl.handle.net/10566/6663Very little is known about clustering in heavy nuclei and in particular the interaction between the correlated cluster nucleons and remaining core nucleons. Currently the phenomenological Saxon-Woods plus cubic Saxon-Woods core-cluster potential successfully predicts the alpha decay half-life and energy band spectra of a number of heavy nuclei. This model, however, lacks a microscopic understanding of clustering phenomenon in these heavy nuclear systems. A fully relativistic microscopic formalism is presented, which generates the core-cluster potential by means of the McNeil, Ray and Wallace based double folding procedure. The core and cluster baryon densities are calculated by using a relativistic mean field approach. The Lorentz covariant IA1 representation of the nucleon-nucleon interaction is folded with the core and cluster densities. Theoretical predictions of the ground-state decay half-life and positive parity energy band of 212Po are obtained with the relativistic mean field formalism and which are compared to the results from the phenomenological Saxon-Woods plus cubic Saxon-Wood core-cluster potential and microscopic M3Y interaction.enSaxon-Woods core-clusterHeavy nucleiRelativistic mean field formulation of clustering in heavy nucleiArticle