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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik
MO 19: Cluster III (joint session MO/A)
MO 19.4: Talk
Thursday, March 14, 2019, 11:30–11:45, S HS 001 Biologie
Electron and photon interactions with size-selected lead clusters — Steffi Bandelow, •Alexander Jankowski, Stephan König, Gerrit Marx, Lutz Schweikhard, and Markus Wolfram — Institute for Physics, University of Greifswald, Germany
At the ClusterTrap-setup [1], the dissociation pattern of photoexcited lead cluster ions has been of interest in recent studies [2,3]. It was shown that lead transitions from a metallic [4] to a non-metallic fragmentation behavior [2] when approaching smaller cluster sizes. In further investigations, size-selected trapped negatively charged lead clusters are exposed to an electron beam. This leads to electron attachment [5,6] as well as collision-induced dissociation [6]. The resulting product ions reveal first hints of fission processes, where doubly negatively charged clusters break up into two singly charged fragments. The most prominent fragments observed are Pb101−, and Pbn−101−, where n is the precursor cluster size. This interpretation is confirmed by photodissociation studies of size- and charge-state selected dianionic lead clusters [7].
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