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Information about Terbium-153:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:152.923431±0.000005amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-71.323686±0.004769MeV
    Binding Energy:1255.383104±0.004774MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.170387±0.001936MeV
"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: 5/2+
  • Half life: 2.34 days ( 202176 sec., λ = 3.42843×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    153
    64
    Gd
      (Q = 1.569 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.163 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2- 2.34
  • Half life: 186 µs ( 0.000186 sec., λ = 3726.6 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.163 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    153
    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
02.34 d5/2+ +3.44(2) [159Tb]CFBLSZP A337 367 (90)
3.5(7) [159Tb]NO/SJP G9 213 (83)
+1.08(14) [159Tb]CFBLSZP A337 367 (90)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.