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Information about Cobalt-62:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:61.934054±0.000022amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-61.428097±0.020051MeV
    Binding Energy:540.726569±0.020052MeV
    β- Decay Energy:5.314591±0.020000MeV
"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: 2+
  • Half life: 1.50 min ( 90 sec., λ = 0.00770164 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    62
    28
    Ni
      (Q = 5.315 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.022 Mev
  • Spin: 5+ 1.50
  • Half life: 13.91 min ( 834.6 sec., λ = 0.000830514 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    62
    28
    Ni
      (Q = 5.337 MeV)   Branch ratio: >99.00 %
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.022 MeV)   Branch ratio: <1.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    62
    26
    Fe
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)