Basic Info

Fission Yield

n-XS summary


element
Information about Barium-137:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:136.905821±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-87.726774±0.002980MeV
    Binding Energy:1149.686208±0.002986MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.600107±0.047771MeV
"The 1995 update to the atomic mass evaluation" by G.Audi and A.H.Wapstra, Nuclear Physics A595 vol. 4 p.409-480, December 25, 1995.
Radioactive Decay Data:

  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 11.23%
  • Spin: 3/2+
  • Stable Isotope
    Meta state at 0.661 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2-
  • Half life: 2.552 min ( 153.12 sec., λ = 0.00452682 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.662 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    137
    55
    Cs
    E.C. from
    137
    57
    La
R.R.Kinsey, et al.,The NUDAT/PCNUDAT Program for Nuclear Data,paper submitted to the 9 th International Symposium of Capture-Gamma_raySpectroscopy and Related Topics, Budapest, Hungary, Octover 1996.Data extracted from NUDAT database (Jan. 14/1999)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
0stable3/2+ +0.93737(2) OPZP 249 205 (72)
0.93734(2) [135Ba]NZP A288 11 (78)
+0.245(4) st RZP A329 407 (88)
+0.23(3) st "OL, R"NP A403 234 (83)/ZP A277 107(76)
0.246(2) RPR A33 2117 (86)
0.23(2) CFBLSPR A33 2117 (86)
0.34(4) ABLSZP A290 231 (79)
0.35(8) ABLRFSZP A306 195 (82)
6622.55 m11/2- -0.99(3) "[135,137Ba]""ABLRFS, R"NP A403 234 (83)
+0.78(9) "[135,137Ba]""ABLRFS, R"NP A403 234 (83)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.