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Information about Ytterbium-159:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:158.940154±0.000097amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-55.746428±0.090080MeV
    Binding Energy:1284.322017±0.090080MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-6.018734±0.086333MeV
"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: 1.58 min ( 94.8 sec., λ = 0.00731168 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    159
    69
    Tm
      (Q = 5.050 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    159
    71
    Lu
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
01.58 m5/2(-) -0.368(8) [171Yb]CFBLSHFI 74 171 (92)
-0.366(8) [173Yb]CFBLSHFI 15 181 (83)
-0.22(2) [173Yb]CFBLSHFI 15 181 (83)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.