97-Bk-249
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97-berkelium-249

  • Atomic Mass: 249.0749799 +- 0.0000034 amu
  • Excess Mass: 69843.351 +- 3.143 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1864027.748 +- 3.160 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- 124.000 +- 1.414 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: 7/2+
  • Half life: 320 d
  • Mode of decay: Beta to Cf-249
    • Decay energy: 0.125 MeV
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Am-245
    • Branch ratio: 0.0014 %
    • Decay energy: 5.526 MeV
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: 4.7E-8 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Cm-249
    Alpha from Es-253
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
0320 d7/2+ 2.0(4) [241Am]EPRPL 44A 527 (73)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.