Abstract:In a continued effort to disentangle adiabatic, nonadiabatic, and internal temperature effects in the collision-induced multifragmentation of alkali-metal cluster ions at moderate energies, we report a theoretical study of this process for the Na5++He encounter in the 100 eV (center-of-mass) collision energy range. The investigation makes use of a diatomics-in-molecules based nonadiabatic molecular-dynamics (NAMD) method. All of the ten electronic 1A' molecular states of the cluster that can be formed by assem… Show more
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