Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Hafnium-178:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:177.943698±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-52.445216±0.002515MeV
    Binding Energy:1432.811231±0.002527MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.912000±0.100499MeV
"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: 27.297%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Stable Isotope
    Meta state at 1.147 Mev
  • Spin: 8-
  • Half life: 4.0 s ( 4 sec., λ = 0.173287 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 1.147 MeV)
    Meta state at 2.446 Mev
  • Spin: 16+ 4.0
  • Half life: 31 years ( 9.7774×10+08 sec., λ = 7.08928×10-10 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 2.446 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    178
    71
    Lu
    E.C. from
    178
    73
    Ta
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
931.47 ns2+ +0.48(3) CEADNP A109 201 (68)
+0.60(4) IPACArkF 22 257 (62)
-2.02(2) a Mu-XPR C30 350 (84)
11474 s8- 3(2) BFNOPC Postma (88)
155477 ns6+ +5.84(5) TDPADNP A349 1 (80)
+5.89(9) TDPADHFI 4 216 (78)
244631 y16+ +8.16(4) [177Hf]CFBLSPRL 72 2689 (94)
7(3) BFNOPC Postma (88)
+6.00(7) [177Hf]CFBLSPRL 72 2689 (94)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.