Basic Info

Fission Yield

n-XS summary


element
Information about Gadolinium-157:

WikipediaNeutron Cross SectionsX-Ray TransitionsX-Ray Attenuation

    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:156.923957±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-70.833880±0.002951MeV
    Binding Energy:1287.960943±0.002958MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.060053±0.000297MeV
"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:

  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 15.65%
  • Spin: 3/2-
  • Stable Isotope
    Meta state at 0.426 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2-
  • Half life: 18.5 µs ( 1.85×10-05 sec., λ = 37467.4 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.426 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    157
    63
    Eu
    E.C. from
    157
    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
0stable3/2- -0.3398(7) [155Gd]"AB/D, ENDOR"JP B2 122 (69)/JP C2 862 (69)
-0.3373(6) ENDORJP C11 203 (78)
+1.36(6) st ABLSPR A42 1416 (90)
+1.35(3) a Mu-XPR C27 1772 (83)
+1.36(2) a "Mu-X, O"PL 108B 8 (82)/ZETF 37 882 (59)
1.34(7) st OZP A289 361 (79)
+1.38(2) [155Gd]ABJP B2 122 (69)
550.13 ns5/2- -0.46(2) a Mu-XPR C27 1772 (83)
640.46 ms5/2+ -0.464(11) [157Gd]"ME, R"NP A233 385 (74)
+2.45(5) [157Gd]MENP A233 385 (74)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.