Basic Info

Fission Yield


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Information about Cerium-138:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:137.905986±0.000011amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-87.573860±0.010546MeV
    Binding Energy:1156.039910±0.010548MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-4.437000±0.010000MeV
"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: 0.25%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Stable Isotope
    Meta state at 2.129 Mev
  • Spin: 7-
  • Half life: 8.65 ms ( 0.00865 sec., λ = 80.1326 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 2.129 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    138
    57
    La
    E.C. from
    138
    59
    Pr
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
353882 ns10+ -1.70(3) TDPADPRL 45 1015 (80)
-1.76(10) TDPADNP A346 281 (80)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.