72-Hf-179
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72-hafnium-179

  • Atomic Mass: 178.9458151 +- 0.0000027 amu
  • Excess Mass: -50472.927 +- 2.514 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1438910.264 +- 2.526 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -110.885 +- 5.452 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: 13.629%
  • Spin: 9/2+
  • Stable Isotope
    Meta state at 0.375 Mev
  • Spin: 1/2-
  • Half life: 18.67 s
  • Mode of decay: IT
    • Decay energy: 0.375 MeV

    Meta state at 1.106 Mev
  • Spin: 25/2-
  • Half life: 25.05 d
  • Mode of decay: IT
    • Decay energy: 1.106 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Lu-179
    Electron capture from Ta-179
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
0stable9/2+ -0.6409(13) AB/DPL 43B 479 (73)/ZP 260 157 (73)
+3.79(3) a "Mu-X, AB"PR C29 1830 (84)/ZP 260 157 (73)
+3.93(5) a Pi-XNP A403 572 (83)
+5.3(5) "AB, R"Bk82HFS 84 (82)/PL 62A 307 (77)
12337 ps11/2+ 1.88(3) a Mu-XPR C30 350 (84)
110625.1 d25/2- 7.4(3) [177Hf 113]NO/SPR C12 2013 (75)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.