Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Cesium-140:

WikipediaNeutron Cross SectionsX-Ray TransitionsX-Ray Attenuation

    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:139.917277±0.000009amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-77.055897±0.008709MeV
    Binding Energy:1164.011653±0.008711MeV
    β- Decay Energy:6.220134±0.009879MeV
"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: 63.7 s ( 63.7 sec., λ = 0.0108814 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    140
    56
    Ba
      (Q = 6.219 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    140
    54
    Xe
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    141
    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)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
065 s1- +0.1338953(5) [133Cs]ABLSJPPa 47 1903 (86)
+0.134(1) [133Cs]ABLSNP A367 1 (81)
+0.134(2) [133Cs]ABPS 19 516 (79)
+0.134(3) [133Cs]CFBLSZP A289 227 (79)
-0.112(7) st CFBLSZP A289 227 (79)
-0.10(2) st ABLSNP A367 1 (81)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.