Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Plutonium-241:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:241.056845±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):52.951039±0.001948MeV
    Binding Energy:1818.696538±0.001975MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.020815±0.000199MeV
"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: 14.35 years ( 4.52599×10+08 sec., λ = 1.53148×10-09 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    241
    95
    Am
      (Q = 0.021 MeV)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    237
    92
    U
      (Q = 5.140 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.0025 %
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: <2.E-14 %
    Meta state at 2.200 Mev 14.35
  • Half life: 32 ns ( 3.2×10+10 sec., λ = 2.16608×10-11 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: SF

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    241
    93
    Np
    α from
    245
    96
    Cm
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
014.4 y5/2+ -0.683(15) [239Pu]OPhca 42 581 (69)
+6(2) OJPPa 25 825 (64)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.