Basic Info
n-XS summary
element
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Information about Curium-244:
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Curium-244 is used in mining to analyze material excavated from pits slurries
from drilling operations.
Mass-Energy Data:
| Atomic Mass: | 244.062746 | ± | 0.000002 | amu |
| Excess Mass (Δ): | 58.447839 | ± | 0.001947 | MeV |
| Binding Energy: | 1835.849000 | ± | 0.001975 | MeV |
| β- Decay Energy: | -2.255643 | ± | 0.014358 | MeV |
"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: 0+
- Half life: 18.10 years ( 5.70874×10+08 sec., λ = 1.21419×10-09 s-1)
- Mode of decay:
α to
(Q = 5.902 MeV)
- Mode of decay: SF
Branch ratio: 0.00013 %
- Mode of decay: SF
(Q = 0 0.000 MeV)
Branch ratio: <=100.00 %
Meta state at 1.040 Mev
- Spin: 6+
18.10
- Half life: 34 ms ( 0.034 sec., λ = 20.3867 s-1)
- Mode of decay: SF
(Q = 9 0.000 MeV)
Branch ratio: <=.77E-9 %
- Possible parent nuclides:
- β- from
- E.C. from
- α from
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)
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