Basic Info

Fission Yield

n-XS summary


element
Information about Lanthanum-139:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:138.906348±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-87.236114±0.003215MeV
    Binding Energy:1164.555840±0.003221MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.278000±0.007000MeV
"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: 99.9098%
  • Spin: 7/2+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    139
    56
    Ba
    E.C. from
    139
    58
    Ce
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+ +2.7830455(9) [2H]"N, O"PL 62A 131 (77)/ZP 116 547 (40)
+0.20(1) st "CFBLS, R"ZP A304 285 (82)/ZP A304 279 (82)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.