Nuclear Data Sheets for A=138

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Nuclear Data Sheets

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Abstract

Experimental nuclear structure data from various reactions and decays are compiled and evaluated for all known nuclides with mass number A=138 (Sn,Sb,Te,I,Xe,Cs,Ba,La,Ce,Pr,Nd,Pm,Sm,Eu,Gd,Tb). Detailed evaluated nuclear structure information is presented for each reaction and decay and the best values combining all available data are recommended for level energies, half-lives, γ-ray energies and intensities, decay properties (energies, intensities and placement of radiations), and other spectroscopic properties. This work supersedes the previous full evaluation of A=138 by A.A. Sonzogni (2003So13).

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Nuclear Data Sheets for A=138☆

Abstract

Rev. Phys., Acad. Rep. Populaire Roumaine

Zh. Eksperim. i Teor. Fiz.

Soviet Phys. JETP

Phys. Letters

Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Fiz.

Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, Phys. Ser.

Can. J. Phys.

J. Phys. Soc. Japan

Phys. Rev.

J. Phys. Soc. Japan

Can. J. Chem.

Nucl. Data Tables A

Phys. Rev. C

Nucl. Phys. A

Phys. Rev. C

Phys. Lett. B

Part. Nucl.

Phys. Rev. C

Nucl. Phys. A

Nucl. Phys. A

Phys. Rev. C

Nucl. Phys. A

Nucl. Phys. A

Phys. Rev. C

Nucl. Phys. A

Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Fiz.

Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, Phys. Ser.

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Naturwissenschaften

Short Lived Halogen Fission Products

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Phys. Rev.

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Phys. Rev.

The Yield of Cs138 in Thermal Neutron Fission of U235

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Isomeric States of Nuclei Having a Lifetime of $10^{- 4} - 10^{- 1}$ s

Decay of Pr¹³⁸

0⁺ States in the N = 82 Nuclei

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