Basic Info

Fission Yield


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Information about Barium-139:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:138.908835±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-84.919280±0.002980MeV
    Binding Energy:1163.021360±0.002986MeV
    β- Decay Energy:2.316834±0.002632MeV
"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:

  • Spin: 7/2-
  • Half life: 83.06 min ( 4983.6 sec., λ = 0.000139086 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    139
    57
    La
      (Q = 2.317 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    139
    55
    Cs
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
084.6 m7/2- -0.973(5) "[135,137Ba]"CFBLSZP A329 407 (88)
-0.98(2) "[135,137Ba]"CFBLSNP A403 234 (83)
-0.573(13) st CFBLSZP A329 407 (88)
-0.50(4) st "[135,137Ba]"CFBLSNP 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.