Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Thorium-228:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:228.028731±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):26.763075±0.002658MeV
    Binding Energy:1743.086719±0.002676MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.147646±0.004435MeV
"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: 0+
  • Half life: 1.9116 years ( 6.02919×10+07 sec., λ = 1.14965×10-08 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    224
    88
    Ra
      (Q = 5.520 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: 20O   (Q = 5.520 MeV)   Branch ratio: 1E-11 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    228
    89
    Ac
    E.C. from
    228
    91
    Pa
    α from
    232
    92
    U
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)