Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Hafnium-177:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:176.943220±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-52.890209±0.002522MeV
    Binding Energy:1425.184901±0.002534MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.166000±0.003000MeV
"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: 18.606%
  • Spin: 7/2-
  • Stable Isotope
    Meta state at 1.315 Mev
  • Spin: 23/2+
  • Half life: 1.08 s ( 1.08 sec., λ = 0.641803 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 1.315 MeV)
    Meta state at 2.740 Mev
  • Spin: 37/2- 1.08
  • Half life: 51.4 min ( 3084 sec., λ = 0.000224756 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 2.740 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    177
    71
    Lu
    E.C. from
    177
    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
0stable7/2- +0.7935(6) AB/DPL 43B 479 (73)/ZP 260 157 (73)
+3.37(3) a Mu-XPR C29 1830 (84)
+3.36(3) [179Hf]ABZP 260 157 (73)
113530 ps9/2- +1.03(3) d IPACZP A355 363 (96)
583 ps9/2- +0.91(2) IPACPR C44 2213 (91)
490 ps9/2- +1.08(4) "IPAC, R"PR C12 2031 (75)
1.30(2) a Mu-XPR C30 350 (84)
25097 ps11/2- +1.5(5) [177Hf 113]IPACCJP 46 1523 (68)
3210.67(2) ns9/2+ -0.73(9) IPACNP A127 609 (69)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.