Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Cerium-143:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:142.912381±0.000004amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-81.616413±0.003422MeV
    Binding Energy:1190.439078±0.003428MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.461444±0.001829MeV
"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: 33.039 h ( 118940 sec., λ = 5.82768×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    143
    59
    Pr
      (Q = 1.462 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    143
    57
    La
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
033 h3/2- 0.43(2) NMR/ONPC Ohya (99)
1.0(3) NO/SPR 129 1601 (63)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.