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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A297 (1990) 223-229 North-Holland Recommended data on selected gamma-ray and conversion-electron calibration sources W.H. Trzaska Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA, and Department of Physics, University of Jyvdskyld, SF-40100 Jyvdskyld, Finland Received 15 December 1989 and in revised form 18 April 1990 A compilation of experimental energies and relative intensities for gamma-ray and conversion-electron transitions from the decay of 207 Bi, 152 Eu, 133 Ba, 36 Co, and 66 Ga is presented. In the cases of known transition multipolarities and mixing ratios, calculated values are given for the conversion-electron intensities . Often, these calculated values are more reliable than the measured ones. 1. Introduction Energy and efficiency calibrations are an indispensa- ble part of every measurement in nuclear spectroscopy . They require reliable data on a set of calibration sources covering a sufficiently wide range of energies . Such data are usually scattered over many publications and, there- fore, cumbersome to obtain . This is especially true for conversion-electron data where, unlike gamma-rays, the experimental information is less complete and less pre- cise. For better results, since the multipolarities and the mixing ratios of appropriate transitions are often known, one can more reliably calculate electron intensities using the experimental gamma-ray intensities and the tabu- lated values of the conversion coefficients . This work includes such calculations based mainly on the tables by Rbsel et al . [1] - the most extensive and up-to-date tables of internal conversion coefficients . These tables extend up to transition energies of 5 MeV for a K and cover elements from Z= 30 to 104. For Z < 30 the tables by Band et al. [2] were used . It is worth mention- ing that : (i) surprisingly many authors, without an ap- parent reason for doing so, are still using the older tabulation [3] by Hager and Seltzer, (ii) for most of the less demanding applications there are simple computer codes available, usable even on small programmable calculators [4]. This compilation of the experimental data on en- ergies and intensities includes some of the commonly used calibration sources : 207Bi, 152 Eu, 133 Ba, 56 Co, and of 66 Ga. The choice of the sources as well as the idea of this compilation result from the needs encountered dur- ing gamma-ray and electron spectroscopy work done at the Physics Department at the University of Jyvdskyld over the past decade . With the exception of the short- lived 66Ga source, all the listed sources can be readily purchased . The tables in this publication have been 0168-9002/90/$03 .50 c 1990 - Elsevier Science Publishers B .V . (North-Holland) 223 arranged to aid in the calibration measurements. For convenience, the relative intensities for gamma-rays and for conversion-electrons are normalized to 1000 decays. For 56 Co and 66Ga, due to very small values of conver- sion coefficients, the relative electron intensities are normalized to 10 6 decays . The half-life information is also provided [5] . In the cases where the calculated values of conver- sion-electron intensities differ significantly from the ex- perimental ones, the use of the former is recommended since many of the electron measurements in the past suffered from possible systematic errors in the effi- ciency determination [6] . 2. M7 Bi source The gamma-ray energies and intensities associated with the decay of 207Bi are very well known [7] . For convenience, these values are shown in table 1 (multi- plied by 9 .775 to normalize to 1000 decays [7]). To calculate the K, L1 , L 2 , and L 3 conversion coefficients a cubic-spline interpolation in a doubly logarithmic scale to the tabulated values by R6sel, Fries, Adler, and Pauli [1] was performed . Also electron binding energies were taken from ref. [1]. For the 569 .7 keV transition a pure ~ 17 .~1 E2 was assumed . The 1003 . ! !RC V LI dliwtlull 10 i11, M4 with a small admixture of E5 (8 = 0 .03(1) [7]) . Unfortunately, the E5 multipolarity is not covered by the tabulation . The approximate value can, however, be extrapolated from the existing numbers. The extrapo- lated value for the E5 K-conversion coefficient is 3.9 x 10-2 as compared to 9.78 x 10 -2 for a pure M4. These values do not differ much and, therefore, a small admix- ture of the E5 multipolarity to the dominant M4 has a negligible effect on the conversion coefficients for this

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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A297 (1990) 223-229North-Holland

Recommended data on selected gamma-ray and conversion-electroncalibration sourcesW.H. TrzaskaCyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA, andDepartment of Physics, University ofJyvdskyld, SF-40100 Jyvdskyld, Finland

Received 15 December 1989 and in revised form 18 April 1990

A compilation of experimental energies and relative intensities for gamma-ray and conversion-electron transitions from the decayof 207Bi, 152Eu, 133Ba, 36Co, and 66Ga is presented. In the cases of known transition multipolarities and mixing ratios, calculatedvalues are given for the conversion-electron intensities . Often, these calculated values are more reliable than the measured ones.

1. Introduction

Energy and efficiency calibrations are an indispensa-

ble part of every measurement in nuclear spectroscopy .

They require reliable data on a set of calibration sources

covering a sufficiently wide range of energies. Such data

are usually scattered over many publications and, there-fore, cumbersome to obtain . This is especially true for

conversion-electron data where, unlike gamma-rays, theexperimental information is less complete and less pre-cise. For better results, since the multipolarities and themixing ratios of appropriate transitions are often known,

one can more reliably calculate electron intensities using

the experimental gamma-ray intensities and the tabu-

lated values of the conversion coefficients . This work

includes such calculations based mainly on the tables byRbsel et al . [1] - the most extensive and up-to-date

tables of internal conversion coefficients . These tables

extend up to transition energies of 5 MeV for aK and

cover elements from Z = 30 to 104. For Z < 30 the

tables by Band et al. [2] were used . It is worth mention-

ing that : (i) surprisingly many authors, without an ap-

parent reason for doing so, are still using the older

tabulation [3] by Hager and Seltzer, (ii) for most of the

less demanding applications there are simple computer

codes available, usable even on small programmable

calculators [4].This compilation of the experimental data on en-

ergies and intensities includes some of the commonly

used calibration sources : 207Bi, 152Eu, 133 Ba, 56Co, and

of 66Ga. The choice of the sources as well as the idea of

this compilation result from the needs encountered dur-

ing gamma-ray and electron spectroscopy work done at

the Physics Department at the University of Jyvdskyld

over the past decade . With the exception of the short-

lived 66Ga source, all the listed sources can be readily

purchased . The tables in this publication have been

0168-9002/90/$03 .50 c 1990 - Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland)

223

arranged to aid in the calibration measurements. Forconvenience, the relative intensities for gamma-rays andfor conversion-electrons are normalized to 1000 decays.For 56Co and 66Ga, due to very small values of conver-sion coefficients, the relative electron intensities arenormalized to 106 decays . The half-life information isalso provided [5] .

In the cases where the calculated values of conver-sion-electron intensities differ significantly from the ex-perimental ones, the use of the former is recommendedsince many of the electron measurements in the pastsuffered from possible systematic errors in the effi-ciency determination [6] .

2. M7Bi source

The gamma-ray energies and intensities associated

with the decay of 207Bi are very well known [7] . For

convenience, these values are shown in table 1 (multi-

plied by 9.775 to normalize to 1000 decays [7]). To

calculate the K, L1 , L 2 , and L3 conversion coefficients a

cubic-spline interpolation in a doubly logarithmic scale

to the tabulated values by R6sel, Fries, Adler, and Pauli

[1] was performed . Also electron binding energies were

taken from ref. [1]. For the 569.7 keV transition a pure~ 17.~1E2 was assumed

. The 1003 . ! !RC V LI dliwtlull 10 i11,

M4 with a small admixture of E5 (8 = 0.03(1) [7]) .

Unfortunately, the E5 multipolarity is not covered by

the tabulation . The approximate value can, however, be

extrapolated from the existing numbers. The extrapo-

lated value for the E5 K-conversion coefficient is 3.9 x

10-2 as compared to 9.78 x 10-2 for a pure M4. These

values do not differ much and, therefore, a small admix-

ture of the E5 multipolarity to the dominant M4 has a

negligible effect on the conversion coefficients for this

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transition energy . The 1770.2 keV transition is a M1 +E2 with the mixing parameter 8 = 0.09(2) [7] .

The calculated electron intensities shown in table 1represent the experimental gamma-ray intensities multi-plied by the calculated conversion coefficients . Intensityvalue for the L peak is a sum of the L1 , - - -, L3 intensi-ties (not resolved with Si(Li) detectors) . The energy ofthe L line was obtained as intensity-weighted average ofthe L l , - - -, L3 energies. The present calculated conver-sion-electron intensities from the decay of 2° 'Bi presenta substantial improvement over the previous calculation[8] : the latest experimental data were used as well as amore recent tabulation of the calculated conversioncoefficients .

The experimental data on the conversion-electronintensities from the decay of 2° 'Bi are only known toreasonable accuracy . The measurements have not beenrepeated since the early 70s. The small experimentalerrors, as shown in table 1, are the result of the evalua-tion of a number of old measurements and not theresult of a single high-precision experiment . A recentpaper by Nemeth [9] provides the best derivation of theintensities extracted from the previously published ex-periments. Unfortunately that paper falls short ofevaluating all of the intensities . Further, the latest issueof the A = 207 Nuclear Data Sheets [7] is not includedin the evaluation, neither is the precision gamma-rayintensity measurement by Yoshizawa et al . [10] . Also,when referring to theoretical values of conversion coef-ficients, the tabulation by Hager and Seltzer [3] isquoted instead of the more recent tabulation by R6se1et al . [1] .

The experimental K intensities in table 1 are derivedfrom the aK 63 = 0.0945(22) and aK9 = 0.0156(3) given

Table 1207Bi source ; Ti/2= 31.8(19) a. Gamma-ray and conversion-electron energies (keV) and relative intensities (normalized to 1000decays)

in ref . [9], and from the gamma-ray intensities from ref.[7] . With these numbers we get : IK9 =15 .25(3) andIK63 = 70.0(16). However, since the aK values in ref. [9]were normalized to another (less recent) theoreticalvalue of the aK

9(E2) the intensities appearing in table 1have been corrected for that by multiplying by 0.01597/0.0156 . Such a correction, of course, does not changethe relative intensities but merely gives a cosmeticchange enabling better comparison with the calculatedvalues . At the same time, the correction does change theabsolute values of conversion coefficients.

The experimental a770 = 0.0030(5) from ref. [11] andquoted in ref. [7] has, as well, to be corrected since itwas calculated relative to a different calculated value ofa569(E2) . The correction factor is this time 0.01597/0.02048 resulting in a clearly underestimated value of0.0023(4) . The author of ref. [11] was aware of possibleerrors in the estimation of this conversion coefficientdue to insufficient thickness of the Si(Li) detector used .For that reason we reject that number. The measure-ment by Allan [12] gives I1770/J1063 = 0.0033(2). Bymultiplying that number by IK63 =71.7(17) one getsIK7° = 0.237(15), as it appears in table 1 .

The experimental L-conversion intensities wereevaluated from experimental K/L ratios . Using thedata from refs . [11,13] and other experimental valuesquoted in ref . [13], one gets the weighted average of:K/L(569) = 3.33(5) and K/L(1069) = 3.75(6) . Both inref . [11] and [13] the Si(Li) detectors used were too thinto measure the 1770 keV transition without an apprecia-ble loss of efficiency . However, the K/L ratios, as arelative intensity of two closely located lines and there-fore less prone to errors from efficiency corrections, canbe used to determine the IL7° . Using the weighted

Egamma Igamma ± Eel Shell Mult. Icalc lexpe569.702 977.5 3.9 481.697 K E2 15 .62 15.62 0.30

553.841 LI 2.30554.502 L2 L .54556.667 L3 0.54554.4 L 4.38 4.69 0.11

1063 .662 740.9 2.4 975 .657 K M4 +E5 72.43 71 .7 1 .71047.801 Ll 14.271048.462 L2 2.811050.627 L3 1.301048 .1 L 18.38 19.12 0.55

1770.237 69.68 0.28 1682.232 K M1 + E2 0.2522 0.237 0.0151754.376 Ll 0.03761755 .037 L2 0.00241757.202 L3 0.00031754.4 L 0.0403 0.038 0.004

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3 . 152Eu source

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average of the two, one gets K/L(1770) = 6.24(46) . Un-fortunately, ref. [12] did not measure the K/L but onlythe K/(L + M).

To summarize, the adopted experimental conversioncoefficients, normalized to a59 = 0.01597, are: a59 =4.80(11) X 10-3 , aK63 = 9.67(23) X 10-2, aL63 = 2.58(7)x 10-2,

a1770= 3.4(3) x 10 -3 , aï7° = 5.45(63) x 10 -4 .

As one of the most widely used, general-purposecalibration sources, the gamma-ray energies and intensi-ties associated with the decay of 152Eu are very wellknown [14] . The gamma-ray energies shown in table 2are from ref . [14] updated to the recently measured andevaluated values in ref. [15] . For the purpose of mostapplications the differences in gamma-ray energies be-tween refs . [14] and [15] are negligible. However, it isworth pointing out that these differences frequentlyexceed quoted errors . For instance, ref. [14] gives1085.914(3) and, for the same transition, ref. [15] recom-mends 1085.842(4) - a value that is 10 units of error

Table 2152Eu source ; T1/2 =13.542 a . Experimental gamma-ray and conversion-electron energies (keV) and relative1000 decays) ; for the 121 keV transition the calculated conversion coefficients were used

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smaller (0.072/(0.003 + 0.004)) . In all conflicting casesthe later value [15] was used .

Experimental gamma-ray intensities in table 2 arethe average calculated from the recent measurements byMehta et al . [16] and Iwata et al . [17] . These two mostrecent experiments are in a good agreement with eachother and do not differ significantly from the NuclearData Sheets [14] . The only exception is the intensity ofthe 963.3-964.0 doublet for which the intensity given inref. [14] is by some 10 standard deviations lower thanwhat the authors of refs. [16,17] measured . For conveni-ence, the relative intensities in table 2 are normalized to1000 decays by multiplying by 2.0945 - the averagevalue of 2.104(8) [17] and 2.085(8) [18].

Experimental relative intensities of conversion elec-trons, except for the 121 .8 keV transition, were mea-sured with good accuracy by Colvin and Schreckenbach[19] using the double-focusing iron-core electron spec-trometer BILL [20] . These latest results agree well withprevious measurements [21] only for the electron en-ergies above 400 keV. Below 400 keV the earlier results,measured with a Si(Li) detector, systematically differshowing higher than expected intensities [6] . Such a

intensities (normalized to

Egamma Igamma f Eel Isotope Shell lei ±

121.7825 286 .5 1 .3 74.948 Sm K 193 .8 cale .114.046 Sm L1 18.3 cale .114.471 Sm L2 45.4 cale .115.066 Sm L_, 11 .9 talc .114.6 Sm L 108 .5 cale.

244.6989 75.82 0.46 197.865 Sm K 6 .13 0.20236.962 Sm L 1 0.692 0.024237.387 Sm L2 0.541 0.019237.983 Sm L3 0.424 0.016237.4 Sm L 1.657 0.034

344.281 266.0 1 .2 294.042 Gd K 8.69 0.30335.905 Gd L1 1 .052 0.036336.351 Gd L2 0.569 0.02.0337.038 Gd L3 0.388 0.014336.2 Gd L 2.009 0.044

411.115 22.62 0.13 360.876 Gd K 0.465 0.016

443.965 31.25 0.19 397.131 Sm K 0.205 0.008

586.294 4.59 0.17 536.055 Gd K ÛA09 0.005

615.416 Ell) 565.177 Gd K 0.095 0.003

656.484 1 .49 0.10 609.650 Sm K 0.079 0.003

698.675 8.80 0.08 641.841 Sm K 0.342 0.011

778.903 130.17 0.44 728.664 Gd K 0.230 0.008

867.390 42.60 0.19 820.556 Sm K 0.143 0.005

964.055 147.58 0.44 917.221 Sm K 0.393 0.014

1085.842 100.62 0.31 1039.008 Sm K 0.213 0.008

1089.700 17.38 0.08 1039.461 Gd K 0.0394 0.0016

1112.087 135.81 0.48 1065.253 Sm K 0.277 0.009

1408.022 209.45 0.59 1361.188 Sm K 0.115 0.005

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different : can be explained if one rejects the commonlyu,ed assumption of a flat detector response to theFiectrons with ranges well below the detector thickness.In a preliminary study [6] it was shown that the ef-ficiency of a 4 mm thick Si(Li) detector drops linearlyby about 140 from 0 to 1 MeV electron energy . Such a

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Table 3133Ba source ; Ti /2 =10.57 (4) a. Gamma-ray and conversion-electron energies (keV) and relative intensities (normalized to 1000decays)

behavior is in sharp contrast with calculations [22] butagrees well with the intensity data obtained with theBILL spectrometer [19] .

To avoid the controversy over the efficiency calibra-tion of a Si(Li) detector, only the BILL data were usedin table 2. To normalize the results to 1000 decays a

Egamma Igamma f Eel Shell Icalc lexpe f

53.161 21 .99 0.22 17.176 K 108.0 109.0 21 .047.447 Li 13 .2 12.66 0.6947.802 L2 3.048.149 1- 3 2.847 .5 L 18 .9

79.623 26.2 0.6 43.638 K 40.0 36 .8 2.673.909 LI 4.89 4.72 0.4174.264 L~ 0.59 0.57 0.1074.611 L3 0.36 0.37 0.0874.0 L 5.84 5.66 0.43

80.997 340.6 2.7 45 .012 K 497.0 430.0 16.075.283 Lt 60 .5 51 .9 1.375.638 L2 8.5 8.08 0.4875.985 L3 5.9 5 .89 0.3375 .3 L 74.9 65.9 1.4

160.613 6.45 0.08 124.628 K 1.525 1 .427 0.027154.899 Lt 0.167 0.141 0.012155.254 L2 0.074 0.070 0.006155.601 L3 0.069 0.066 0.006155.1 L 0.310 0.278 0.015

223.234 4.50 0.04 187.249 K 0.384 0.324 0.010217.520 Li 0.047217.875 L2 0.003218.222 L3 0.001217.6 L 0.051 0.041 0.006

276.398 71.64 0.22 240.413 K 3.31 3.28 0.35270.684 Li 0.35271.039 L2 0.14271.386 L3 0.12270.9 L 0.61 0.58 0.07

302.853 183.3 0.6 266.868 K 6.98 6.92 0.69297.139 Li 0.850297.494 L, 0.047297.841 L3 0.011297.2 L 0 .909 1 .00 0.13

356.017 620.5 1.9 320.032 K 13.08 13.08 E2350.303 L, 1 .44350.658 L2 0.41351.005 L3 0.33350.5 L 2.18 2.16 0.12

383.851 89 .4 0.3 347.866 K 1 .506 1.54 0.17378.137 Li 0.168378.492 L 2 0.044378.839 L3 0.033378.3 L 0.244 0.255 0.034

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factor of 0.15766 was used . This factor comes from themeasured Igamma (per 1000 decays) = 75.82 and acalculated value of OK(E2) = 0.08089 for the 244 keVtransition . The calculation of conversion coefficients forthe 121 and 244 keV E2 transitions was done in thesame way as in the case of 207Bi .

4 . 133Ba source

The experimental gamma-ray energies and intensitiesin table 3 were taken directly from ref. [23] except thatthe present normalization is to 1000 decays. Based onthese intensities and on the experimental mixing ratios8 from ref. [23] the conversion-electron intensities werecalculated ( Icalc). For the calculation a cubic-splineinterpolation in a doubly logarithmic scale to the tabu-lated values [1] was used .

The experimental conversion-electron intensities intable 3 were compiled from the electron measurementsby Hennecke et al . [24], Thun et al. [25], and byTörnkvist et al . [26], and are normalized to the calcu-lated value of 13.08 for the IK

6 .

5 . MCo source

Gamma-ray energies associated with the decay of56Co have recently been measured with good accuracy[27] . The values Egamma and Igamma in table 4 are takenfrom that work . The experimental K-conversion intensi-ties are from the measurements of Pettersson et al. [28]and are normalized to the calculated aK

6(E2) = 2.685 x

Table 456Co source ; TI/2 = 77.35(23) d. Gamma-ray and K-electron energies (keV) and relative intensities (normalized to 103 and 106 decays

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10 -4 . The gamma-ray intensities in table 4 are normal-ized to 103 decays and the electron intensities are nor-malized to 106 decays. This normalization is apprcxi-mate . For absolute intensities a factor of 0.99935(25)should be used [29] .

Using gamma-ray energy and intensity data fromref. [27] and the mixing ratios 8 and from ref. [29] theK-conversion electron intensities were calculated (IK1C ).The procedure was the same as for

207KBi except that the

tabulation by Band et al . [2] was used . No calculationwas done for the 787 keV transition because 8 is notknown [29]. However, since the aK has been measured[28] to be aKpe = 2.88(31) x 10-4 (normalized to theaK6(E2) = 2.685 x 10-4), one can extract 181 from thecalculated aK7(E2) = 2.303 x 10 -4 and aK7(Ml) _3.249 x 10-4 . This way one gets 0.7 < 181 < 3.0, whereaK = 2.88 x 10 -4 corresponds to 181 = 1.3 .

6 . 66Ga source

The short half-life of 9.49 h makes the 66Ga sourceimpractical to use in laboratories without easily availa-ble accelerator facility . However, there is not muchchoice if energies above 3.5 MeV are of interest [30] . Aconvenient way of producing 66Ga is via the 66Zn(p, n)reaction at EP = 12 MeV [31] ; use of natural Zn ispossible (27.9% of 66Zn). Also the 6sCu( a, 3n) reactionat about E,,, = 40 MeV could be used [32] .

The most recent measurements of gamma-ray en-ergies and intensities from the decay of 66Ga were donein 1971 by Camp et al . [33] and, in 1970, by Phelps et

respectively)

Egamma Igamma EK IKcalc Ixexile

733.516 1.93 0.12 726.402 0.516 0.51 0.10787.742 3.05 0.13 780.628 - 0.88 0.08846.769 1000.0 3 .0 839.655 268.5 268 .5 E2977.368 14.35 0.16 970.254 2.14 2.02 0.061037.842 141.6 0.5 1030.728 18 .7 19.4 0 .41175.097 22.41 0.12 1167.983 2.38 2 .23 0.041238.286 660.6 2 .1 1231.172 71 .6 71.6 0.91360.206 42.65 0.17 1353.092 3.35 3.41 0.721771.344 154 .9 0 .5 1764.230 7.50 7.56 0.221963.714 7.07 0.11 1956.600 0.286 0.29 0.062015.190 30.26 0.14 2008.076 1.19 1 .28 0.062034.769 77.66 0.28 2027.655 2.95 3 .13 0.082598.459 169.6 0 .6 2591.345 4.27 4.67 0.103009.587 10.0 0 .1 3002.473 0.198 0.23 0.063201 .953 30.4 0 .3 3194.839 0.550 0.65 0.033253.428 74 .1 0.7 3246.314 1.33 1 .53 0.063273.006 17.5 0 .2 3265.892 0.305 0.36 0.033451 .148 8 .75 0 .1 3444.034 0.143 0.11 0.02

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Table 566Ga source ; T1/2 = 9.49(8) h . Gamma-ray and K-electron energies (keV) and intensities normalized to 10 3 decays for gamma-raysand to 10 6 decays for electrons . IT is the total conversion electron intensity

al . [34] . The energies shown in table 5 are the average ofthis two experiments [33] . The relative gamma-ray in-tensities were normalized to 1000 decays by multiplyingby 379(12) [35] but also corrected for the systematicerror. It was pointed out by McCallum et al . [36] thatthe assumption of a linear efficiency drop (in the log-logscale) for Ge(Li) detectors at gamma-ray energies above2.5 MeV, as used in refs . [33,34], is not justified andleads to systematic errors . A correction factor of f(E)=1.053 -0.079E + 0.026E2 for 2 :::_~ E < 5 MeV wassuggested [361 . It is difficult to evaluate the precision ofthe final intensities after the correction is applied. Forthat reason no error bars are quoted in table 5 . Theaccuracy of the original data was claimed to be to about1%, although this is questionable.

The calculated K and total conversion-electron in-tensities were computed using the corrected gamma-rayintensities, as appearing in table 5, and the samenumerica' procedure as for the other sources . The tabu-lated values by Rosel et al . were used [1]. Since, unlikethe aK tabulation that extends up to 5 MeV; the a_ islisted only up to 1.5 MeV, an extrapolation was used forthe IT c . The error of such an extrapolation is probablysmall because the atot/aK ratio remains fairly constantat about 1 .12 (Z = 30, E > 400 keV, for the El, E2 andM1 transitions) [1] . In case of Ml/E2 ambiguity in thetransition multipolarity two corresponding intensitieswere calculated. The intensity normalization for elec-trons in table 5 is to 10 6 decays .

For this source, the experimental conversion-electronintensities are not accurately known . The values listed

in table 5 are from the measurement by Schwarzschildet al . [32] normalized to 1T39 =102.

Acknowledgement

The author wishes to acknowledge fruitful discus-sions with Prof. Juhani Kantele and Prof . Thomas M.Cormier in preparation of this manuscript.

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833.65(8) 60.45 824.0 E2 25.2 28 .1 25.5 2 .61039.35(8) 379.0 1029.7 E2, 91.7 102.0 102.0 5 .11333.37(9) 12.36 1323.7 E2 1.72 1 .92 2 .21 0.221418.97(9) 6.37 1409.3 ?1918.66(9) 21.41 1909.0 ? 2.80 0.702190.20(15) 57.31 2180 .5 ? 3 .14 0.352422.50(15) 19.76 2412.8 ? 0.98 0.542752.27(10) 239.1 2742.6 M1 8.38 9.36 11.13 0.893229.35(20) 15.88 3219.7 Ml/El 0.43/0.29 0.48/0.323381 .30(20) 15.31 3371 .6 Ml 0.385 0.4303422.50(20) 8.94 3412.8 ?3791 .56(10) 11.41 3781 .9 Ml 0.240 0.268 0.40 0.144086.45(15) 13.33 4076.8 Ml/El 0.25/0.18 0.28/0.204295.50(20) 41.52 4285.8 Ml 0.724 0.808 0.98 0.234462.10(14) 8.63 4452.4 Ml 0.142 0.1594806.60(20) 18.64 4796.9 Ml 0.276 0.308 0.47 0.12

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