element

Information about Lithium-8:

		(no NIST x-ray data)	(no NIST attenuation data)
Wikipedia	Neutron Cross Sections	X-Ray Transitions	X-Ray Attenuation

Mass-Energy Data:

Atomic Mass:	8.022487	±	0.000001	amu
Excess Mass (Δ):	20.946195	±	0.000488	MeV
Binding Energy:	41.277328	±	0.000488	MeV
β^- Decay Energy:	16.004532	±	0.000488	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: 2+
Half life: 838 ms ( 0.838 sec., λ = 0.827145 s^-1)
Mode of decay:
β^-
to
8
4
Be
(Q = 16.004 MeV)
Mode of decay: β^- + 2α
Possible parent nuclides:
β^- from
8
2
He

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)	T_1/2	Spin	m(nm)	Q(b)	Ref. Std.	Method	Reference
0	842 ms	2+	+1.65340(2)		[1H]	b-NMR	PL A67 423 (78)/PR 126 1506 (62)
				0.0317(4)	[7Li]	b-NMR	ZP A282 243 (77)
				0.0287(7)	[7Li]	CFBLS/b-NMR	ZP A331 295 (88)
				0.0327(6)	[7Li]	b-NNQR	PRL 69 2058 (92)
				sign positive	"[6,7Li]"	NMR	NP A568 544 (94)

N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published. 2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.