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Information about Cesium-123:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:122.912990±0.000013amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-81.049124±0.012216MeV
    Binding Energy:1030.792392±0.012217MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-5.458000±0.298000MeV #
"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: 1/2+
  • Half life: 5.87 min ( 352.2 sec., λ = 0.00196805 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    123
    54
    Xe
      (Q = 4.200 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.157 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2)- 5.87
  • Half life: 1.64 s ( 1.64 sec., λ = 0.422651 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.157 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    123
    56
    Ba
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
05.8 m1/2+ +1.377(7) [133Cs]ABLSNP A468 1 (87)
+1.39(2) [133Cs]ABNP A292 144 (77)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.