Basic Info

Fission Yield

n-XS summary


element
Information about Selenium-79:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:78.918500±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-75.916934±0.001513MeV
    Binding Energy:686.951420±0.001516MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.151046±0.001659MeV
"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: 7/2+
  • Half life: <=650000 years ( 0 sec., λ = inf s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    79
    35
    Br
      (Q = 0.151 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.096 Mev
  • Spin: 1/2- <=650000
  • Half life: 3.92 min ( 235.2 sec., λ = 0.00294705 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.096 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.94 %
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    79
    35
    Br
      (Q = 0.247 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.06 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    79
    33
    As
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
0<6.5x104 y7/2+ -1.018(15) MAPR 92 1532 (53)
+0.8(2) "MA, R"OSpk 12 163 (62)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.