Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Iodine-140:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:139.931210±0.000230amu #
    Excess Mass (Δ):-64.077000±0.214000MeV #
    Binding Energy:1152.598000±0.214000MeV #
    β- Decay Energy:8.918000±0.223000MeV #
"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: 0.86 s ( 0.86 sec., λ = 0.805985 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    140
    54
    Xe
      (Q = 8.760 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    139
    54
    Xe
      (Q = 3.340 MeV)   Branch ratio: 9.30 %
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)