Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Berkelium-249:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:249.074980±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):69.843351±0.003143MeV
    Binding Energy:1864.027748±0.003160MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.124000±0.001414MeV
"The 1995 update to the atomic mass evaluation" by G.Audi and A.H.Wapstra, Nuclear Physics A595 vol. 4 p.409-480, December 25, 1995.
Radioactive Decay Data:

  • Spin: 7/2+
  • Half life: 320 days ( 2.7648×10+07 sec., λ = 2.50704×10-08 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    249
    98
    Cf
      (Q = 0.125 MeV)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    245
    95
    Am
      (Q = 5.526 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.0014 %
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: 4.7E-8 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    249
    96
    Cm
    α from
    253
    99
    Es
R.R.Kinsey, et al.,The NUDAT/PCNUDAT Program for Nuclear Data,paper submitted to the 9 th International Symposium of Capture-Gamma_raySpectroscopy and Related Topics, Budapest, Hungary, Octover 1996.Data extracted from NUDAT database (Jan. 14/1999)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
0320 d7/2+ 2.0(4) [241Am]EPRPL 44A 527 (73)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.