27-Co-56
 basic
 XS graphs

 element
27-cobalt-56

  • Atomic Mass: 55.9398439 +- 0.0000026 amu
  • Excess Mass: -56035.003 +- 2.415 keV
  • Binding Energy: 486905.539 +- 2.416 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -2135.358 +- 11.236 keV
"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.
  • Spin: 4+
  • Half life: 77.27 d
  • Mode of decay: Electron capture to Fe-56
    • Decay energy: 4.566 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Electron capture from Ni-56
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
078.8 d4+ 3.85(1) [60Co]NMR/ONJP C10 3651 (77)
3.99(6) [60Co]NMR/ONCzJP B36 1331 (86)
+0.25(9) [58Co]NMR/ONPR B37 4911 (88)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.