Nuclear Properties for Astrophysics



Interactive access to nuclear properties of interest for astrophysics for almost 9000 nuclei. Get your experimental masses and calculated masses, deformations, decay Q-values, half-lives, spins, and separation energies here!


Plot of R-Process Abundances

The magenta line shows a typical r-process path, and the small magenta squares are the nuclei produced when the nuclides along the path decay back to stability after the supernova neutron flux ends.


Access to the data:


The calculated masses and deformations are from
Nuclear Ground-State Masses and Deformations, by P. Möller, J. R. Nix, W. D. Myers, and W. J. Swiatecki
Atomic Data Nucl. Data Tables 59 (1995), 185-381.

The other calculated nuclear properties are from
Nuclear Properties for Astrophysical and Radioactive-Ion-Beam Applications,
by P. Möller, J. R. Nix, and K.-L. Kratz,
Atomic Data Nucl. Data Tables 66 (1997), 131-343.

The most recent experimental mass evaluation is
Wapstra, Audi, and Thibault (A. H. Wapstra, G. Audi, and C. Thibault, Nucl. Phys. A729 (2003), 129). Another repository of this evaluation and related data can be found here . We use here recent data from the interrim evaulation:
G. Audi and W. Meng, Private Communication, April 2011

An exhaustive list of nuclear-mass data bases and other mass-related resources is found here .

Page by Robert MacFarlane and Peter Möller
ryxm@lanl.gov, moller@lanl.gov
created 4 March 1997, last modified 1 May 2012