Atomic and nuclear properties of uranium oxide (UO2)
QuantityValueUnits ValueUnits
<Z/A> 0.39996     
Specific gravity 10.96 g cm-3   
Mean excitation energy 720.6 eV   
Minimum ionization 1.147 MeV g-1cm2 12.58 MeV cm-1
Nuclear collision length 106.8 g cm-2 9.743 cm
Nuclear interaction length 180.8 g cm-2 16.49 cm
Pion collision length 132.1 g cm-2 12.06 cm
Pion interaction length 211.9 g cm-2 19.34 cm
Radiation length 6.65 g cm-2 0.6068 cm
Critical energy 7.89 MeV (for e-) 7.60 MeV (for e+)
Molière radius 17.88 g cm-2 1.632 cm
Plasma energy ωp 60.33 eV   
Muon critical energy 147. GeV   
Composition:
Elem ZAtomic frac* Mass frac
O
8
2.00
0.118502
U
92
1.00
0.881498
* calculated from mass fraction data

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