Nuclide reference

Ba-140 — Barium-140

Ba-140 की half-life 12.753 d है। मुख्य decay mode: β⁻ decay → La-140 (100%)।

Identification

तत्व
Barium (Ba)
Atomic number Z
56
Mass number A
140
State
Radioactive

Key quantities

Half-life
12.753 d
विशिष्ट गतिविधि
2.706e+15 Bq/g
Gamma constant Γ
—
परिवहन के लिए A1 / A2 (SSR-6)
0.5 TBq / 0.3 TBq
D-value (НП-067-24)
0.03 TBq

Decay modes

  • β⁻ decay → La-140 — 100 %

Main gamma lines

Energy, keVYield, %
1,596.21 (La-140)109.9
487.021 (La-140)52.4
815.772 (La-140)26.81
537.26124.39
328.762 (La-140)23.4
29.96614.1
5.09936 · X-ray line8.065
925.189 (La-140)7.943
867.846 (La-140)6.339
162.666.219

Includes daughter nuclides in equilibrium: La-140 (yield per decay of Ba-140); the emitting nuclide is in brackets. Equilibrium is reached in about 14 d. In transient equilibrium a daughter's activity exceeds the parent's, so a yield can be above 100%.

Alpha and beta particles

RadiationEnergy, keVYield, %
β⁻, E max1,006.238
1,02024
468.9323.8
1,350.2 (La-140)50.55

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 1 m पर H*(10) है, ICRP-107 spectra (NIST µ_en/ρ, ICRP-74 Table A.21) से गणना की गई, equilibrium में short-lived progeny सहित (जैसे Cs-137/Ba-137m, Ra-226 series); specific activity molar mass M ≈ mass number A का उपयोग करती है।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.

Barium-140 (Ba-140) — reference data

What is in the card

This card gathers the key data of radionuclide Ba-140 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 Ba-140 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.