66-Dy-159
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 XS graphs

 element
66-dysprosium-159

  • Atomic Mass: 158.9257357 +- 0.0000034 amu
  • Excess Mass: -69176.777 +- 3.122 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1300881.779 +- 3.129 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -1837.723 +- 2.683 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: 3/2-
  • Half life: 144.4 d
  • Mode of decay: Electron capture to Tb-159
    • Decay energy: 0.366 MeV

    Meta state at 0.352 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2-
  • Half life: 122 us
  • Mode of decay: IT
    • Decay energy: 0.353 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Electron capture from Ho-159
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
0144 d3/2- -0.354(3) [163Dy]CFBLSPC Neugart (87)
+1.37(2) [163Dy]CFBLSPC Neugart (87)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.