Basic Info

Fission Yield

n-XS summary


element
Information about Cerium-142:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:141.909240±0.000004amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-84.542631±0.003426MeV
    Binding Energy:1185.293973±0.003432MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.745318±0.002396MeV
"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: 11.08%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Half life: >5E+16 years ( 0 sec., λ = inf s-1)
  • Mode of decay: 2β- to
    142
    60
    Nd

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    142
    57
    La
    E.C. from
    142
    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
6415.7 ps2+ +0.42(10) TFNP A533 541 (91)
-0.16(5) or -0.37(5) CERPR C38 2982 (88)/AuJP 42 345 (89)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.