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Fragmentation cross sections of protonated water clusters

Sébastien Zamith
Pierre Labastie
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Jean-Marc L'Hermite

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We have measured fragmentation cross sections of protonated water cluster cations (H2O)n= 30−50H+ by collision with water molecules. The clusters have well-defined sizes and internal energies. The collision energy has been varied from 0.5 to 300 eV. We also performed the same measurements on deuterated water clusters (D2O)n=5−45D+ colliding with deuterated water molecules. The main fragmentation channel is shown to be a sequential thermal evaporation of single molecules following an initial transfer of relative kinetic energy into internal energy of the cluster. Unexpectedly, that initial transfer is very low on average, of the order of 1% of collision energy. We evaluate that for direct collisions (i.e., within the hard sphere radius), the probability for observing no fragmentation at all is more than 35%, independently of cluster size and collision energy, over our range of study. Such an effect is well known at higher energies, where it is attributed to electronic effects, but has been reported only in a theoretical study of the collision of helium atoms with sodium clusters in that energy range, where only vibrational excitation occurs.
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hal-00703409 , version 1 (01-06-2012)

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Sébastien Zamith, Pierre Labastie, Jean-Marc L'Hermite. Fragmentation cross sections of protonated water clusters. Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012, 136 (21), pp.214301. ⟨10.1063/1.4722886⟩. ⟨hal-00703409⟩
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