SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS

Alkor Technologies is a distributor of the leading Russian producers of Scintillators: organic crystals, stylbene, p-terphenyl and other scintillation crystals are available upon request.

Properties of common inorganic scintillators.

	Specific Gravity	Wavelength of max. Emission	Right Yield Photons/MeV	Decay Time
Alkali Halides
NaI(Tl)	3.67	415	38.000	0.23
CsI(Tl)	4.51	540	65.000	0.68(64%),3.34(36%)
CsI(Na)	4.51	420	39.000	0.46,4.18
Other inorganic crystals
BGO	7.13	480	8.200	0.30
Unactivated fast Inorganic crystals
BaF2 (fast component)	4.89	220	1.400	0.0006
BaF2 (slow component)	4.89	310	9.500	0.63
Cerium activated fast Inorganic crystals
LSO:Ce	7.4	420	25.000	0.047

Applications using scintillation detectors:

1. NaI(Tl) - Anger camera detectors, oil well exploration, general purpose gamma ray, x-ray, and changed particle spectroscopy, large volume anti-Compton spectroscopy, low background radiation detection, high energy physics.

2. BaF2 - Fast timing, time-of-flight applications, gamma ray and charged particle discrimination, positron emission tomography, high dose radiation fields, high energy physics.

3. CsI (Na) - Oil well exploration, large volume anti-Compton spectroscopy.

4. CsI(Tl) - High energy physics, photodiode applications, computerized axial tomography.

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