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Information about Samarium-138:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:137.923540±0.000320amu #
    Excess Mass (Δ):-71.222000±0.298000MeV #
    Binding Energy:1136.559000±0.298000MeV #
    β- Decay Energy:-9.231000±0.499000MeV #
"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: 0+
  • Half life: 3.1 min ( 186 sec., λ = 0.0037266 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    138
    61
    Pm
      (Q = 3.900 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    138
    63
    Eu
    E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ from
    139
    64
    Gd
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
29030.55 ns10+ ~10 IPADGensh. Ken. 33 145 (89)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.