Decay of the isomeric states of 102Ag

Discovery of the silver isotopes

“…"The 100 Cd does not decay appreciably to the previously known 8 min 100 Ag but, instead, to an isomer of half-life 2.3±0.1 min." This value for the half-life agrees with the presently accepted value of 2.01(9) m. The incorrect half-life of about 8 m had previously been reported by several authors [19,20,22]. 101…”

Nuclear Magnetic Moment and Hyperfine Structure Anomaly of 103Ag and Nuclear Spin of 13 m 102Ag

“…The apparent 13 min activity with I = 5 can be interpreted from the results of both [3] and [47. Bakhru et al [3] propose for lozmAg a half-life of 17 min and I=5, and for looAg a half-life of 8 min, and if this isotope also has Z=5, a mixture of the two might give an apparent half-life of 13 min.…”

“…The works [3-61 all treat the decay properties of QQAg-102Ag. There are, however, several disagreements concerning half-lives as well as decay energies between the work by Bakhru et al [3] and those by Doty, Charoenkwan et al [4-61. When the experiments reported here were carried out, the results of were not known to us, and most emphasis was laid on the hfs measurements on lo3Ag. As a consequence the halflife determinations in connection with our spin measurements are not precise enough to settle the discrepancies between the results of the other investigators, but measurements will continue.…”