Basic Info

Fission Yield


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Information about Cesium-146:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:145.940162±0.000086amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-55.738704±0.080156MeV
    Binding Energy:1191.122397±0.080156MeV
    β- Decay Energy:9.366528±0.037314MeV
"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: 1-
  • Half life: 0.321 s ( 0.321 sec., λ = 2.15934 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    146
    56
    Ba
      (Q = 9.370 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    145
    56
    Ba
      (Q = 4.260 MeV)   Branch ratio: 14.20 %
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
00.34 s1 -0.515(2) [133Cs]ABLSNP A468 1 (87)
+0.22(3) 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.