68-Er-159
 basic
 element
68-erbium-159
  • Atomic Mass: 158.9306807 +- 0.0000049 amu
  • Excess Mass: -64570.486 +- 4.576 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1294710.781 +- 4.581 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -3845.437 +- 65.192 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: 36 min
  • Mode of decay: Electron capture to Ho-159
    • Decay energy: 2.769 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Electron capture from Tm-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
036 m3/2- -0.304(2) [167Er]CFBLSCf85Bomb 175 (85)
+1.17(1) [167Er]CFBLSCf85Bomb 175 (85)
7848.2 ps21/2+ <0.74 RIGVNP A344 176 (80)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.