Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Samarium-155:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:154.924636±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-70.201159±0.002987MeV
    Binding Energy:1272.750283±0.002995MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.626864±0.001198MeV
"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: 3/2-
  • Half life: 22.3 min ( 1338 sec., λ = 0.000518047 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    155
    63
    Eu
      (Q = 1.627 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    155
    61
    Pm
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
022.4 m3/2- 1.13(13) [153Sm]ABJPCR 5 835 (76)/PC Wadding (68)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.