Basic Info

Fission Yield


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Information about Xenon-137:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:136.911563±0.000008amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-82.378579±0.007164MeV
    Binding Energy:1145.902720±0.007166MeV
    β- Decay Energy:4.172566±0.007295MeV
"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: 7/2-
  • Half life: 3.818 min ( 229.08 sec., λ = 0.00302579 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    137
    55
    Cs
      (Q = 4.172 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    137
    53
    I
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    138
    53
    I
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
03.82 m7/2- -0.968(8) "[129,131Xe]"CFBLSPL B216 7 (89)
-0.48(2) [131Xe]CFBLSPL B216 7 (89)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.