Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Europium-157:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:156.925419±0.000007amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-69.471338±0.006262MeV
    Binding Energy:1287.380754±0.006266MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.362542±0.005523MeV
"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: 5/2+
  • Half life: 15.18 h ( 54648 sec., λ = 1.26839×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    157
    64
    Gd
      (Q = 1.363 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    157
    62
    Sm
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
015.2 h5/2+ +1.50(2) "[151,153Eu]"CFBLSZP A337 257 (90)
+2.6(3) "[151,153Eu]"CFBLSZP A337 257 (90)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.