Basic Info

Fission Yield


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Information about Gallium-72:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:71.926369±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-68.586498±0.002028MeV
    Binding Energy:625.468785±0.002030MeV
    β- Decay Energy:3.999058±0.002281MeV
"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: 3-
  • Half life: 14.10 h ( 50760 sec., λ = 1.36554×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    72
    32
    Ge
      (Q = 4.001 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.120 Mev
  • Spin: (0+) 14.10
  • Half life: 39.68 ms ( 0.03968 sec., λ = 17.4684 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT) to
    72
    31
    Ga

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    72
    30
    Zn
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
014.1 h3- -0.13224(2) "[69,71Ga]"ABPR 127 529 (62)
+0.52(1) st "[69,71Ga]""AB, R"PR A6 1702 (72)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.