Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Xenon-138:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:137.913989±0.000040amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-80.119139±0.037035MeV
    Binding Energy:1151.714602±0.037036MeV
    β- Decay Energy:2.774000±0.035777MeV
"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: 14.08 min ( 844.8 sec., λ = 0.000820487 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    138
    55
    Cs
      (Q = 2.770 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    138
    53
    I
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    139
    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)