Nuclear and Decay Properties

NUBASE Evaluation of Nuclear and Decay Properties, G. Audi, O. Bersillon, J. Blachot, and A.H. Wapstra, Nuclear Physics A729, 3 (2003). 

Audi, G Bersillon, O., Blachot, J. and Wapstra, A.H. (2003) The NUBASE evaluation of nuclear and decay properties. Nuclear Physics A, 729(1), 3-128. 

Decay properties of transuranium nuclides lead to the understanding of proton excess heavy nuclei verification of the proton drip line, nuclear structure of large deformed nuclei such as octupole and hexadecapole deformation, and fission barrier heights. There are several textbooks and review articles on nuclear decay properties of transuranium nuclei (e.g., Hyde et al. 1964 Seaborg and Loveland 1985 Poenaru 1996). Theoretical nuclear models of heavy nuclei are presented by Rasmussen (1975) and the nuclear structure with a deformed single-particle model is discussed by Chasman et al. (1977). Radioactive decay properties of transuranium nuclei are tabulated in the Table of Isotopes (Firestone and Shirley 1996). Recent nuclear and decay properties of nuclei in their ground and isomeric states are compiled and evaluated by Audi et al. (1997), while the calculated atomic mass excess and nuclear ground-state deformations are tabulated by MoUer et al. (1995). 

In the first part (Chapter 1.2.1, p. 6) a general survey about masses and decay data is given. Their systematic behavior, i.e., their dependence on the proton number Z and nucleon number (mass number) A, is discussed. In Chapter 1.2.2 (p. 22) a quick overview on the decay data of the nuclides of the Pt group is given more detailed descriptions of nuclear and decay properties are compiled in Chapter 1.2.3, p. 29. The methods used for production and separation of short-lived isotopes from irradiated materials are summarized in Chapter 1.3, p. 126. 

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