Precision measurement of the mass of10B
The Q-value for the reaction10B(3He,p)12c* (4.439 MeV) was measured as 15 305.46±0.3 keV. Therefrom the mass excess of the ground state of10B could be derived as 12 051.2±0.45 keV which is by 0.5 keV lower than the value of the 1977 mass evaluation.