Abstract
We have measured the metastable fragmentation of fullerene ions in molecular beams. The rates are significantly smaller than the evaporative ensemble prediction, consistent with an alternative cooling mechanism through emission of electromagnetic radiation. Modeling the competition between radiative and evaporative cooling yields information about the evaporative activation energy and emissivity of the carbon clusters.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5012-5018 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue number | 13 |
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| State | Published - 1996 |