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An important application of caesium iodide crystals, which are scintillators, is electromagnetic calorimetry in experimental particle physics.Pure CsI is a fast and dense scintillating material with relatively low light yield that increases significantly with cooling, [11] and a fairly small Molière radius is 3.5 cm.
The scintillator consists of a transparent crystal, usually a phosphor, plastic (usually containing anthracene) or organic liquid (see liquid scintillation counting) that fluoresces when struck by ionizing radiation. Cesium iodide (CsI) in crystalline form is used as the scintillator for the detection of protons and alpha particles.
The scintillation process is the same as described for organic crystals (above); what differs is the mechanism of energy absorption: energy is first absorbed by the solvent, then passed onto the scintillation solute (the details of the transfer are not clearly understood).
This is another mechanism of phosphor degradation. The scintillation process in inorganic materials is due to the electronic band structure found in the crystals . An incoming particle can excite an electron from the valence band to either the conduction band or the exciton band (located just below the conduction band and separated from the ...
In plant immunology, the hypersensitive response (HR) is a mechanism used by plants to prevent the spread of infection by microbial pathogens.HR is characterized by the rapid death of cells in the local region surrounding an infection and it serves to restrict the growth and spread of pathogens to other parts of the plant.
Plant perception is the ability of plants to sense and respond to the environment by adjusting their morphology and physiology. [1] Botanical research has revealed that plants are capable of reacting to a broad range of stimuli, including chemicals, gravity, light, moisture, infections, temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations, parasite infestation, disease, physical disruption ...
Sensitivity to iodine-containing compounds is rare but has a considerable effect given the extremely widespread use of iodine-based contrast media; however, the only adverse effect of contrast material that can convincingly be ascribed to free iodide is iodide mumps and other manifestations of iodism. [84]
The scintillator is the primary radiation sensor that emits light when struck by high energy photons. Gd 2 O 2 S based ceramics exhibit final densities of 99.7% to 99.99% of the theoretical density (7.32 g/cm 3 ) and an average grain size ranging from 5 micrometers to 50 micrometers in dependence with the fabrication procedure. [ 1 ]