Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Neptunium-237:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:237.048167±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):44.867501±0.001961MeV
    Binding Energy:1795.277138±0.001986MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.220318±0.001298MeV
"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: 5/2+
  • Half life: 2144000 years ( 6.76218×10+13 sec., λ = 1.02504×10-14 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    233
    91
    Pa
      (Q = 4.959 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: <=2E-10 %
    Meta state at 2.800 Mev 2144000
  • Half life: 45 ns ( 4.5×10+10 sec., λ = 1.54033×10-11 s-1)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    237
    92
    U
    E.C. from
    237
    94
    Pu
    α from
    241
    95
    Am
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
02.1x10*6y5/2+ +3.14(4) "EPR, R"JCP 53 809 (70)
+~2.9 MEPR 165 1319 (68)
+3.866(6) a "Mu-X, Pi-X, ME"PL 189B 7 (87)/PR 186 1296 (69)
6068 ns5/2- +1.68(3) [237Np]MEPR 171 316 (68)/JCP 53 809 (70)
+1.95(15) TDPACNP A104 588 (67)
+3.85(4) [237Np]MEBAPS 13 28 (68)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.