91-Pa-231
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91-protactinium-231

  • Atomic Mass: 231.0358789 +- 0.0000028 amu
  • Excess Mass: 33420.973 +- 2.586 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1759860.436 +- 2.605 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -382.155 +- 3.220 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: 3/2-
  • Half life: 32760 years
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Ac-227
    • Decay energy: 5.149 MeV
  • Mode of decay: 24NEC
    • Branch ratio: 13E-10 %
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: <=3E-10 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Th-231
    Electron capture from U-231
    Alpha from Np-235
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.