Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Protactinium-231:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:231.035879±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):33.420973±0.002586MeV
    Binding Energy:1759.860436±0.002605MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.382155±0.003220MeV
"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: 3/2-
  • Half life: 32760 years ( 1.03325×10+12 sec., λ = 6.70841×10-13 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    227
    89
    Ac
      (Q = 5.149 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: 24NEC   Branch ratio: 13E-10 %
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: <=3E-10 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    231
    90
    Th
    E.C. from
    231
    92
    U
    α from
    235
    93
    Np
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
03.3x10*4y(2-) 2.01(2) ENDORPR 121 1630 (61)
8444 ns5/2+ +0.7(2) [231Pa]MEPL 69A 225 (78)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.