Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Cadmium-121:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:120.912980±0.000091amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-81.058233±0.084576MeV
    Binding Energy:1020.135329±0.084576MeV
    β- Decay Energy:4.780000±0.080000MeV
"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: (3/2+)
  • Half life: 13.5 s ( 13.5 sec., λ = 0.0513442 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    121
    49
    In
      (Q = 4.890 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.215 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2-) 13.5
  • Half life: 8.3 s ( 8.3 sec., λ = 0.0835117 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    121
    49
    In
      (Q = 5.105 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    121
    47
    Ag
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    122
    47
    Ag
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)