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Fission Yield


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Information about Cesium-144:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:143.932027±0.000031amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-63.316084±0.028472MeV
    Binding Energy:1182.557132±0.028473MeV
    β- Decay Energy:8.464396±0.027046MeV
"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: 1.01 s ( 1.01 sec., λ = 0.686284 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    144
    56
    Ba
      (Q = 8.465 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    143
    56
    Ba
      (Q = 2.560 MeV)   Branch ratio: 3.20 %
    Meta state at 0.000 Mev
  • Spin: (|>4) 1.01
  • Half life: <1 s ( 0 sec., λ = inf s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    144
    56
    Ba
      (Q = 8.465 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    145
    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
01.00 s1 -0.546(3) [133Cs]ABLSNP A367 1 (81)
+0.30(1) 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.