Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Gadolinium-161:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:160.929666±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-65.515980±0.003158MeV
    Binding Energy:1314.928334±0.003165MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.955577±0.001418MeV
"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: 3.66 min ( 219.6 sec., λ = 0.00315641 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    161
    65
    Tb
      (Q = 1.956 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    161
    63
    Eu
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)