FISSION AND LIQUID-DROP BEHAVIOR OF CHARGED GOLD CLUSTERS

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SAUNDERS, WA
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[1] Institut de Physique Expérimentale, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, PHB-Ecublens
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.3046
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Fragmentation measurements on doubly charged Au clusters show that clusters smaller than 18 atoms decay by fission (i.e., two charged cluster fragments) and neutral-atom evaporation. The fission probability is found to increase relative to the evaporation probability with decreasing cluster size, roughly as an exponential function of z2/n, where n is the number of atoms in the cluster. The results are found to be in good agreement with an adapted version of the nuclear liquid-drop model. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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