Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Holmium-168:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:167.935496±0.000031amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-60.084685±0.028882MeV
    Binding Energy:1363.649239±0.028883MeV
    β- Decay Energy:2.914312±0.028735MeV
"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+
  • Half life: 2.99 min ( 179.4 sec., λ = 0.0038637 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    168
    68
    Er
      (Q = 2.910 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.059 Mev
  • Spin: (6+) 2.99
  • Half life: 132 s ( 132 sec., λ = 0.00525112 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.059 MeV)   Branch ratio: >=99.50 %
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    168
    68
    Er
      (Q = 2.969 MeV)   Branch ratio: <=0.50 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    168
    66
    Dy
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)