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Fission Yield


element
Information about Terbium-158:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:157.925410±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-69.479885±0.002999MeV
    Binding Energy:1293.895917±0.003007MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.936732±0.002383MeV
"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-
  • Half life: 180 years ( 5.6772×10+09 sec., λ = 1.22093×10-10 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    158
    64
    Gd
      (Q = 1.220 MeV)   Branch ratio: 83.40 %
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    158
    66
    Dy
      (Q = 0.937 MeV)   Branch ratio: 16.60 %
    Meta state at 0.110 Mev
  • Spin: 0- 180
  • Half life: 10.70 s ( 10.7 sec., λ = 0.0647801 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.110 MeV)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    158
    66
    Dy
      (Q = 1.047 MeV)   Branch ratio: <0.60 %
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    158
    64
    Gd
      (Q = 1.330 MeV)   Branch ratio: <0.01 %
    Meta state at 0.388 Mev
  • Spin: 7- 10.70
  • Half life: 0.40 ms ( 0.0004 sec., λ = 1732.87 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.388 MeV)
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)