26-Fe-56
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 n-XS summary
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 element
26-iron-56

  • Atomic Mass: 55.9349421 +- 0.0000015 amu
  • Excess Mass: -60601.003 +- 1.354 keV
  • Binding Energy: 492253.892 +- 1.356 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -4566.000 +- 2.000 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.
  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 91.754%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Mn-56
    Electron capture from Co-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
8476.9 ps2+ 1.22(16) "IMPAC IPAC,R"PR C16 899 (77)
-0.19(8) CERPR C23 244 (81)
-0.23(3) CERPR C4 1699 (71)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.