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Unimolecular Decay of Metastable Cluster Anions: (O 2 ) N − * → (O 2 ) N‐1 − + O 2
Author(s) -
Scheier P.,
Märk T. D.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.2150300606
Subject(s) - metastability , excited state , cluster (spacecraft) , dissociation (chemistry) , atomic physics , physics , ion , crystallography , materials science , chemistry , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
Abstract Unimolecular dissociation of metastable excited states of (O 2 ) n − * into (O 2 ) n‐1 −cluster anions has been detected and studied quantitatively for n in the range of 13 to 22. The apparent metastable (decay rates determined increase with cluster size in from ∼ 5000 s −1 (for n = 13) up to ∼ 8500 s −1 for n = 22).