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Information about Samarium-140:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:139.918991±0.000016amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-75.459386±0.014904MeV
    Binding Energy:1156.938668±0.014905MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-8.470000±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: 0+
  • Half life: 14.82 min ( 889.2 sec., λ = 0.000779518 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    140
    61
    Pm
      (Q = 3.020 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    140
    63
    Eu
    E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ from
    141
    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
317219.4 ns10+ -1.8(2) TDPADPL 206B 404 (88)
1.7(5) [154Sm 82]TDPADZP A321 403 (85)
32105.2 ns10+ +12.7(9) TDPADPL 206B 404 (88)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.