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Extracting the magic numbers of water clusters from abundance spectra. K.Hansen, Dept. of Physics, Göteborg University P.Andersson, Dept. of Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Göteborg University E.Uggerud, Dept. of Chemistry, Universitetet i Oslo. Pure water clusters H + (H 2 O) n.
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Extracting the magic numbers of water clusters from abundance spectra K.Hansen, Dept. of Physics, Göteborg University P.Andersson, Dept. of Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Göteborg University E.Uggerud, Dept. of Chemistry, Universitetet i Oslo
Pure water clusters H+(H2O)n N=21 (it is ”magic”)
Electrospray source & TOF-MS Ion production (Quadrupole mass filter, off) (collision cell, empty) Transit time defines cooling time Ion product determination (TOF-MS)
Evaporative ensemble abundances: abundances / smoothened abundance distribution evaporative activation energies smoothened ditto heat capacity/kB evaporative rate constant frequency factor
Example 1: Na cluster separation energies compared with heat bath evaporation J.Borggreen et al., Phys.Rev. A 62 (2000) 013202.
Example 2: Gold clusters in Penning trap compared with modelfree data L. Schweikhard et al. Eur.Phys.J.D 36 (2005) 179
Conclusions: ’Magic’ appearance of N=21 is due both to enhanced stability of 21 and reduced stability of 22. N=28, 55 appear magic because 29, 56 are anti-magic Need to understand better: Thermal properties Radiative heating
Metastable fragmentation Z.Shi et al., JCP 99 (1993) 8009
Radiative heating Th.Schindler et al., CPL 250 (1996) 301