The electric field gradient in fluorides

The electric quadrupole hyperfine interaction was investigated for various fluorides by the time-differential observation of the perturbed γ angular correlation and the Kern-Hanle effect of the 197 keV radiation of the 5/2+ level in 19F. This level was excited by inelastic proton scattering. The dependence of the quadrupole coupling constant from the chemical bond of the atom to its ligands was measured in fluorides of two-valid transition elements and in pureley covalent molecules, as (CF2)sub(n) or SF6. The influence of radiation-induced defects in nonmetals was investigated for cubic fluorides between 80 K and 1050 K. For CaF2 two different field gradients are obtained with coupling constants between 27 MHz and 3 MHz. By measurements of the angular distribution for CaF2/PrF3 mixed crystals which contain a variable concentration of F- interstitials was shown that the appearance of the 3 MHz frequency is correlated with the concentration of F- interstitials in CaF2. (BHO)