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Information about Cesium-121:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:120.917184±0.000015amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-77.142934±0.014128MeV
    Binding Energy:1010.743556±0.014129MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-6.802021±0.303531MeV
"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: 128 s ( 128 sec., λ = 0.00541521 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    121
    54
    Xe
      (Q = 5.400 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.068 Mev
  • Spin: 9/2(+) 128
  • Half life: 122 s ( 122 sec., λ = 0.00568153 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    121
    54
    Xe
      (Q = 5.469 MeV)   Branch ratio: 83.00 %
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.068 MeV)   Branch ratio: 17.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    121
    56
    Ba
    E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ from
    122
    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
02.27 m3/2+ +0.770(4) [133Cs]ABLSNP A468 1 (87)
0.79(2) [133Cs]ABNP A292 144 (77)
+0.838(9) st ABLSNP A468 1 (87)
~362.02 m9/2+ +5.41(3) [133Cs]ABLSNP A468 1 (87)
+2.69(5) st ABLSNP A468 1 (87)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.