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Information about Potassium-38:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:37.969080±0.000001amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-28.801691±0.000724MeV
    Binding Energy:320.647243±0.000725MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-6.742647±0.004607MeV
"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: 3+
  • Half life: 7.636 min ( 458.16 sec., λ = 0.00151289 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    38
    18
    Ar
      (Q = 5.913 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.130 Mev
  • Spin: 0+ 7.636
  • Half life: 923.9 ms ( 0.9239 sec., λ = 0.75024 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    38
    18
    Ar
      (Q = 6.043 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    38
    20
    Ca
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
07.61 m3+ +1.371(6) [39K]"AB, R"PL 108B 169 (82)
345822.1 ms7+ +3.836(14) TDPADPL 48B 28 (74)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.