Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Copper-63:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:62.929601±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-65.576162±0.001435MeV
    Binding Energy:551.381251±0.001437MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-3.366869±0.001570MeV
"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: 69.17%
  • Spin: 3/2-
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    63
    28
    Ni
    E.C. from
    63
    30
    Zn
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
0stable3/2- 2.227206(3) [23Na]NZP A288 17 (78)
2.2273456(14) [11B]NZP A288 17 (78)
+2.2233(2) AB/D"Cf66 Paris, 355 (66)"
-0.211(4) st [65Cu]"O, R"ZNat 41a 24 (86)
0.220(15) a Mu-XZP A309 77 (82)
44984.08 ns17/2+ +1.56(10) [62Cu 390]IPADNP A406 533 (83)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.