Nuclide reference

Ti-44 — Titanium-44

The half-life of Ti-44 is 60 years. Main decay mode: electron capture to Sc-44 (100%).

Identification

Element
Titanium (Ti)
Atomic number Z
22
Mass number A
44
State
Radioactive

Key quantities

Half-life
60 years
Specific activity
5.01e+12 Bq/g
Gamma constant Γ
—
A1 / A2 for transport (SSR-6, НП-053-16)
0.5 TBq / 0.4 TBq
D-value (НП-067-24)
0.03 TBq

Decay modes

  • electron capture → Sc-44 — 100 %

Main gamma lines

Energy, keVYield, %
510.999 (Sc-44) · annihilation 511 keV188.5
1,157.02 (Sc-44)99.9
78.3696.4
67.867993.03
4.09 · X-ray line11.28
4.085 · X-ray line5.723
1,499.46 (Sc-44)0.9081
2,656.48 (Sc-44)0.1119
146.220.09158

Includes daughter nuclides in equilibrium: Sc-44 (yield per decay of Ti-44); the emitting nuclide is in brackets. Equilibrium is reached in about 28 h.

Alpha and beta particles

RadiationEnergy, keVYield, %
β⁺, E max1,474.3 (Sc-44)94.27

For β⁺ the endpoint (maximum) energy of the spectrum is given. ENDF/B-VIII.0.

Related calculators

Reference data vs computed valuesHalf-life, gamma lines and D-value are reference data (ENDF/B-VIII.0, НП-067-24).Gamma constant Γ is H*(10) at 1 m computed from ICRP-107 spectra (NIST µ_en/ρ, ICRP-74 Table A.21) including short-lived progeny in equilibrium (e.g. Cs-137/Ba-137m, Ra-226 series); specific activity uses molar mass M ≈ mass number A.K-series X-ray energies are from NIST SRD 128 (Deslattes et al., 2003): in ENDF/B-VIII.0 they are given to 1 % and shifted by up to 0.7 keV for heavy elements. L-series lines and all yields are ENDF/B-VIII.0.

Titanium-44 (Ti-44) — reference data

What is in the card

This card gathers the key data of radionuclide Ti-44 in one place: half-life, decay modes, main gamma lines, alpha and beta particle energies, gamma constant, specific activity and the D-value for source categorization. Decay and emission data are from ENDF/B-VIII.0; the D-value follows NP-067-24; the gamma constant is the ambient dose equivalent H*(10) at 1 m, computed from ICRP-107 spectra.

How to use the data

Half-life and specific activity let you recalculate the activity of a Ti-44 source to the delivery or disposal date — use the decay calculator. Gamma lines with yields identify the nuclide from a spectrum and pick the line for gamma spectrometry; the gamma constant Γ gives the dose rate at a distance, while the D-value and A1/A2 set the source category and the package type for transport.