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Information about Cobalt-53:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:52.954225±0.000019amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-42.639145±0.018058MeV
    Binding Energy:449.295712±0.018058MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-13.260000±0.159000MeV #
"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: (7/2-)
  • Half life: 240 ms ( 0.24 sec., λ = 2.88811 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    53
    26
    Fe
      (Q = 8.302 MeV)
    Meta state at 3.190 Mev
  • Spin: 19/2-) 240
  • Half life: 247 ms ( 0.247 sec., λ = 2.80626 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    53
    26
    Fe
      (Q = 11.492 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~98.50 %
  • Mode of decay:
    1
    1
    p+ emission to
    52
    26
    Fe
      (Q = 1.591 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~1.50 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    53
    28
    Ni
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)