ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Threshold-photoelectron photoion coincidence (TPEPICO) spectra of argon clusters ionized with synchrotron radiation have been observed, and the average kinetic energy of Ar2+, which originates from Ar3+, has been estimated. All the line shapes of the Ar2+ ion observed in the TPEPICO spectra have been appropriately simulated in terms of superposition of a sharp and a broad Gaussian function, where the sharp Gaussian function corresponds to ionization of the argon dimer Ar2. The observed line shapes agree very well with the simulated ones, implying that the excess energy in the Ar3 ionization is thermally or quasithermally partitioned to translational energy of the fragment species. From the average kinetic energies of Ar2+, it has been found that the percentage of excess energy in Ar3+, that is partitioned into the total translational energy of the fragment species, is dependent on the excitation energy. The percentage is slightly less than the value of 40% expected from statistical theory. It has also been found that complete dissociation of Ar3+ takes place in the excess energy range 0.3–1.1 eV.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.463281
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