Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Curium-245:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:245.065486±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):60.999422±0.002715MeV
    Binding Energy:1841.368740±0.002735MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.810213±0.002430MeV
"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: 8500 years ( 2.6809×10+11 sec., λ = 2.5855×10-12 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    241
    94
    Pu
      (Q = 5.623 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: 6.1E-7 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    245
    95
    Am
    E.C. from
    245
    97
    Bk
    α from
    249
    98
    Cf
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
08500 y7/2+ 0.5(1) [241Am]EPRPR B1 3555 (70)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.