Basic Info

Fission Yield


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Information about Cerium-137:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:136.907778±0.000051amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-85.904567±0.047755MeV
    Binding Energy:1146.299295±0.047756MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.702000±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:

  • Spin: 3/2+
  • Half life: 9.0 h ( 32400 sec., λ = 2.13934×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    137
    57
    La
      (Q = 1.222 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.254 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2- 9.0
  • Half life: 34.4 h ( 123840 sec., λ = 5.59712×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.254 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.22 %
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    137
    57
    La
      (Q = 1.476 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.78 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    137
    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
09.0 h3/2+ 0.96(4) NMR/ONJPJa 60 845 (91)
0.90(15) NO/SPR 129 1601 (63)
25434.4 h11/2- 1.01(4) NMR/ONJPJa 60 845 (91)
0.70(3) NO/SPR 143 78 (66)
0.96(9) NO/SPR 121 591 (61)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.