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Information about Terbium-152:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:151.924071±0.000043amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-70.727096±0.040109MeV
    Binding Energy:1246.715191±0.040109MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.598532±0.040301MeV
"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: 2-
  • Half life: 17.5 h ( 63000 sec., λ = 1.10023×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    152
    64
    Gd
      (Q = 3.990 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: α to
    148
    63
    Eu
      (Q = 3.090 MeV)   Branch ratio: <7.0E-7 %
    Meta state at 0.501 Mev
  • Spin: 8+ 17.5
  • Half life: 4.2 min ( 252 sec., λ = 0.00275058 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.502 MeV)   Branch ratio: 78.80 %
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    152
    64
    Gd
      (Q = 4.492 MeV)   Branch ratio: 21.20 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    152
    66
    Dy
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
017.5 h2- -0.58(2) [159Tb]CFBLSZP A337 367 (90)
0.9(1) [159Tb]NO/SJP G9 213 (83)
+0.34(13) [159Tb]CFBLSZP A337 367 (90)
+0.5(16) [159Tb]NO/SJP G9 213 (83)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.