Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Calcium-40:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:39.962591±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-34.846110±0.000293MeV
    Binding Energy:342.051954±0.000297MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-14.319724±0.004096MeV
"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:

  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 96.941%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    40
    19
    K
    E.C. from
    40
    21
    Sc
    E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ from
    41
    22
    Ti
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
373747 ps3- +1.6(3) "TFL RIGV,R"PRL 43 326 (79)/PR C14 2013 (76)
+1.6(3) [40Ca 4492]IMPACZP A327 157 (87)
4492295 ps5- +2.6(5) IPADPR C10 919 (74)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.