ABSTRACT
The fission gaseous (138)Xe products play an important role in the research of nuclear-reaction products and radioisotope applications. Therefore, precise data for emission probabilities of gamma-ray from decay of (138)Xe are highly desired. However, a high precision is not achievable with a sufficient accuracy due to the limitations of the usual experimental techniques. In this paper, after the homogeneous sources of (138)Xe-(138)Cs were prepared, the activity of (138)Xe was obtained by the decay relationship between (138)Xe and (138)Cs using a HPGe detector. The full-energy peak efficiencies of gamma-ray for (138)Xe and (138)Cs were accurately calibrated using many activity standard sources and self-absorption was corrected. As a result, the absolute emission probabilities of the 258.4, 434.6 and 1768.3 keV gamma-ray from decay of (138)Xe were determined to be 34.9(10)%, 22.2(6)% and 18.8(5)%, respectively.
