Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Cesium-142:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:141.924292±0.000011amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-70.521242±0.010582MeV
    Binding Energy:1173.619643±0.010584MeV
    β- Decay Energy:7.306770±0.010289MeV
"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: 0-
  • Half life: 1.70 s ( 1.7 sec., λ = 0.407734 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    142
    56
    Ba
      (Q = 7.306 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    141
    56
    Ba
      (Q = 1 1.137 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.091 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    142
    54
    Xe
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)