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Information about Europium-140:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:139.928084±0.000056amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-66.989386±0.052174MeV
    Binding Energy:1147.686315±0.052174MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-5.460000±0.400000MeV #
"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: 1.51 s ( 1.51 sec., λ = 0.459038 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    140
    62
    Sm
      (Q = 8.400 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.185 Mev
  • Spin: (5-) 1.51
  • Half life: 125 ms ( 0.125 sec., λ = 5.54518 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.185 MeV)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    140
    62
    Sm
      (Q = 8.585 MeV)   Branch ratio: <1.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    140
    64
    Gd
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
0 + x1.54 s1(+) +1.365(13) [151Eu]CFBLSZP A321 35 (85)
+0.31(4) [153Eu]CFBLSZP A321 35 (85)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.