Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Copper-68:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:67.929638±0.000049amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-65.541887±0.045622MeV
    Binding Energy:591.703589±0.045622MeV
    β- Decay Energy:4.462143±0.045593MeV
"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: 31.1 s ( 31.1 sec., λ = 0.0222877 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    68
    30
    Zn
      (Q = 4.460 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.721 Mev
  • Spin: (6-) 31.1
  • Half life: 3.75 min ( 225 sec., λ = 0.00308065 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.722 MeV)   Branch ratio: 84.00 %
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    68
    30
    Zn
      (Q = 5.182 MeV)   Branch ratio: 16.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    68
    28
    Ni
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)