Scintillation crystals as components of scintillation detectors are widely used in modern science and technique, especially, in medicine and high energy physics. High density of scintillation material is one of the basic requirements for creating of effective detecting devices. This advantage is incident to oxide crystals, that possess low radiation length and high atomic weight. Therefore such substances as bismuth germanate, yttrium silicate, bivalent metals tungstates, and others became an object of intensive investigations, especially seeing the elaboration of large calorimetric devices for elementary particles accelerators. The analysis of scintillation properties of various scintillator types showed that oxide materials, being at disadvantage in relation to traditional alkali-halide crystal systems in some scintillation parameters, excel them in rapidity, radiation hardness, chemical and thermal stability and operate successfully under conditions of strong irradiation, high temperatures, chemically active environment, mechanical stress, etc.
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