Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File
ENSDF contains evaluated nuclear structure and decay data in
a standard format. An international network of evaluators contributes to
the database, which is maintained by the National Nuclear Data Center
at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Information in the database is
regularly updated to reflect revised evaluation results. Most of the recently completed
evaluations are published in
Nuclear Data Sheets, a monthly journal published by Academic Press,
a division of Elsevier Science.
For each nuclide, all known experimental data used to deduce nuclear structure
information are included. Each type of experiment is presented as a separate
dataset. In addition, there is a dataset of "adopted" level and
gamma-ray transition properties, which represent the evaluator's determination
of the best values for these properties, based on all available experimental
data.
As of the most recent update on April 21, 2008,
the ENSDF database contains 16298 datasets
for 3039 nuclides.
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