Nuclide reference

Au-194 — Gold-194

The half-life of Au-194 is 1.5842 d. Main decay mode: β⁺ decay / electron capture to Pt-194 (100%).

Identification

Element
Gold (Au)
Atomic number Z
79
Mass number A
194
State
Radioactive

Key quantities

Half-life
1.5842 d
Specific activity
1.572e+16 Bq/g
Gamma constant Γ
—
A1 / A2 for transport (SSR-6, НП-053-16)
1 TBq / 1 TBq
D-value (НП-067-24)
0.07 TBq

Decay modes

  • β⁺ decay / electron capture → Pt-194 — 100 %

Main gamma lines

Energy, keVYield, %
328.46460.4
66.831 · X-ray line39.79
65.123 · X-ray line23.29
293.54810.58
1,468.886.608
2,043.683.805
510.999 · annihilation 511 keV3.449
645.1522.337
948.312.277
1,886.892.235

Lines of the bare nuclide (ENDF/B-VIII.0), without daughter ingrowth.

Alpha and beta particles

RadiationEnergy, keVYield, %
β⁺, E max1,4791.13
1,150.50.59

For β⁺ the endpoint (maximum) energy of the spectrum is given. ENDF/B-VIII.0.

Related calculators

Reference data vs computed valuesHalf-life, gamma lines and D-value are reference data (ENDF/B-VIII.0, НП-067-24).Gamma constant Γ is H*(10) at 1 m computed from ICRP-107 spectra (NIST µ_en/ρ, ICRP-74 Table A.21) including short-lived progeny in equilibrium (e.g. Cs-137/Ba-137m, Ra-226 series); specific activity uses molar mass M ≈ mass number A.K-series X-ray energies are from NIST SRD 128 (Deslattes et al., 2003): in ENDF/B-VIII.0 they are given to 1 % and shifted by up to 0.7 keV for heavy elements. L-series lines and all yields are ENDF/B-VIII.0.

Gold-194 (Au-194) — reference data

What is in the card

This card gathers the key data of radionuclide Au-194 in one place: half-life, decay modes, main gamma lines, alpha and beta particle energies, gamma constant, specific activity and the D-value for source categorization. Decay and emission data are from ENDF/B-VIII.0; the D-value follows NP-067-24; the gamma constant is the ambient dose equivalent H*(10) at 1 m, computed from ICRP-107 spectra.

How to use the data

Half-life and specific activity let you recalculate the activity of a Au-194 source to the delivery or disposal date — use the decay calculator. Gamma lines with yields identify the nuclide from a spectrum and pick the line for gamma spectrometry; the gamma constant Γ gives the dose rate at a distance, while the D-value and A1/A2 set the source category and the package type for transport.