mass excess

The mass excess is usually indicated in mu or mmu.

This makes tabulated mass excess less cumbersome for use in calculations.

If the mass excess is negative, the nucleus has more binding energy than C, and vice versa.

This difference is called mass excess.

The C standard makes it useful to think about nuclear mass in atomic mass units for the definition of the mass excess.

This mass excess is a practical value calculated from experimentally measured nucleon masses and stored in nuclear databases.

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The mass excess of a nuclide is the difference between its actual mass and its mass number in atomic mass units.

Isostatic compensation and gravity anomalies result from balance between mass excess of the extra mantle beneath the thinned lithosphere and the overlying low-density crust.

Thus, the mass excess is an expression of the nuclear binding energy, relative to the binding energy per nucleon of Carbon-12 (which defines the atomic mass unit).

If there is subsequent substantial infill this could complete the isostatic adjustment or even produce a mass excess if the crater region has been compressed by the impact and is fairly rigid.

Both isotopes of natural europium have larger mass excesses than sums of those of their potential alpha daughters plus that of an alpha particle; therefore, they (stable in practice) may alpha decay.

Thus by working in terms of the mass excess, one has effectively removed much of the mass changes which arise from the mere transfer or release of nucleons, making more obvious the scale of the net energy difference.

Because the actual mass is u, the mass excess is u. Calculated in the same manner, the mass excess for Kr, Ba, and a neutron are u, u and u, respectively.

The difference between reactants and products is u, which shows that the mass excess of the products is less than that of the reactants, and so the fission can occur - a calculation which could have been done also with only the masses of the reactants.