Abstract
It was demonstrated that the previously reported 1.8-hr and 4.5-hr do not occur among the uranium fission products. and were briefly reinvestigated: the former decays with a half-life of 13.9±0.6 minutes and emits -rays of 0.9-Mev maximum energy followed by soft -rays; the latter decays with a half-life of 24.4±0.5 minutes and its maximum -ray energy is 3.8 Mev. In addition, it was shown that any undiscovered short-lived Ce fission products must decay with half-lives shorter than 6 minutes.
- Received 25 November 1952
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.89.1267
©1953 American Physical Society