Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Praseodymium-139:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:138.908932±0.000009amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-84.829114±0.008267MeV
    Binding Energy:1160.584133±0.008269MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.787000±0.050000MeV
"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: 5/2+
  • Half life: 4.41 h ( 15876 sec., λ = 4.36601×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    139
    58
    Ce
      (Q = 2.129 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    139
    60
    Nd
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
82245 ns11/2- +6.6(5) TDPADZP A291 319 (79)
+7.2(6) TDPADPRL 48 516 (82)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.