Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Potassium-41:

WikipediaNeutron Cross SectionsX-Ray TransitionsX-Ray Attenuation

    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:40.961826±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-35.558872±0.000261MeV
    Binding Energy:351.618393±0.000266MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.421386±0.000278MeV
"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: 6.7302%
  • Spin: 3/2+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    41
    18
    Ar
    E.C. from
    41
    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
0stable3/2+ +0.2148701(2) AB/DZP 270 173 (74)
+0.21489274(12) [2H]NZNat 29a 1754 (74)/ZNat 29a 1763 (74)
+0.060(5) st [39K]"MB, R"PR A3 837 (71)
12947.42 ns7/2- +4.42(5) [19F 197]TDPADPL 28B 651 (69)
2528152 ps11/2+ 4.5(10) [41K 1294]RIGVZP A301 243 (81)
277455 ps13/2+ 3.0(5) [41K 1294]RIGVZP A301 243 (81)
498373 ps19/2- 7(3) [41K 1294]RIGVZP A301 243 (81)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.