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Information about Barium-121:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:120.924486±0.000325amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-70.340913±0.303202MeV
    Binding Energy:1003.159182±0.303202MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-7.940000±0.587000MeV #
"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: 5/2(+)
  • Half life: 29.5 s ( 29.5 sec., λ = 0.0234965 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    121
    55
    Cs
      (Q = 6.800 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ to
    120
    54
    Xe
      (Q = 4.200 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.02 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    121
    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
030 s5/2(+) +0.660(1) "[135,137Ba]"CFBLSPL 211B 272 (88)
+1.79(12) st "[135,137Ba]"CFBLSPL 211B 272 (88)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.