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Fission Yield


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Information about Gadolinium-159:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:158.926385±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-68.571851±0.002955MeV
    Binding Energy:1301.841559±0.002963MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.970561±0.000736MeV
"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: 3/2-
  • Half life: 18.479 h ( 66524.4 sec., λ = 1.04194×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    159
    65
    Tb
      (Q = 0.971 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.067 Mev
  • Spin: 5/2+ 18.479
  • Half life: 26.2 ns ( 2.62×10+10 sec., λ = 2.6456×10-11 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.068 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    159
    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)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
018.6 h3/2- -0.44(3) NO/SPR C4 1942 (71)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.