Basic Info

Fission Yield

n-XS summary


element
Information about Cerium-140:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:139.905434±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-88.087615±0.003074MeV
    Binding Energy:1172.696311±0.003080MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-3.388000±0.006000MeV
"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: 88.48%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    140
    57
    La
    E.C. from
    140
    59
    Pr
    α from
    144
    60
    Nd
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
159690 fs2+ +1.9(2) TFNP A533 541 (91)
20843.4 ns4+ 4.06(15) TDPAC/IPACPR 140 B811 (65)
3.8(4) TDPACPR 134 B718 (64)
4.44(16) TDPACZP 173 203 (63)
4.6(3) TDPACPL 3 291 (63)
0.35(7) st [139La]TDPACJPJS 34 265 (73)
371523 ns10+ +10.3(4) [139Ce 2632]TDPADZP A329 143 (88)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.