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Information about Europium-146:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:145.917200±0.000008amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-77.127958±0.007162MeV
    Binding Energy:1206.252823±0.007165MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.029888±0.007725MeV
"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: 4-
  • Half life: 4.61 days ( 398304 sec., λ = 1.74025×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    146
    62
    Sm
      (Q = 3.878 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.666 Mev
  • Spin: 9+ 4.61
  • Half life: 235 µs ( 0.000235 sec., λ = 2949.56 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT) to
    146
    63
    Eu
      (Q = 0.666 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    146
    64
    Gd
    α from
    150
    65
    Tb
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
04.59 d4- +1.421(8) [151Eu]CFBLSCf93Bern 209(93)
+1.425(11) [151 Eu]CFBLSZP A321 35 (85)
1.3(2) NO/SPhca 133B 138 (85)
1.7(3) NO/SHFI 15 73 (83)
Q/Q(153Eu) = -0.074(2) [153Eu]CFBLSCf93Bern 209(93)
-0.18(6) [151 Eu]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.