95-Am-240
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95-americium-240

  • Atomic Mass: 240.0552878 +- 0.0000149 amu
  • Excess Mass: 51500.271 +- 13.925 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1811293.630 +- 13.929 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -215.380 +- 13.941 keV
"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.
  • Spin: (3-)
  • Half life: 50.8 h
  • Mode of decay: Electron capture to Pu-240
    • Decay energy: 1.379 MeV
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Np-236
    • Branch ratio: 0.00019 %
    • Decay energy: 5.710 MeV

    Meta state at 3.000 Mev
  • Half life: 0.942 ms
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: <=100.00 %
    • Decay energy: 0 0.000 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Alpha from Bk-244
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)