High resolution TDPAC work using CsF and BaF2 fast detectors

Barium fluoride and cesium fluoride inorganic scintillators offer excellent timing, reasonable energy resolution and good gamma ray detection efficiencies. These characteristics are very desirable for accurate time differential perturbed angular correlation/distribution (TDPAC/D) experiments and enables one to extend the TDPAC/D techniques for the study of many interesting solid state aspects such as near neighbour interactions, conduction electron polarization, short and long range ordering etc. The performance of these detectors is compared with the commonly used ones and their potential for new solid state applications is demonstrated by means of some illustrative examples. (orig.)