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A new statistical model has been developed in the framework of Phase Space Theory to describe the evaporation process of non-rotating clusters. The novelty of the theoretical approach resides in its ability to easily separate the total kinetic energy released in an evaporation process into the rotational and translational contributions. This new model has been tested by comparing its predictions with the results of Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations for the unimolecular evaporation of two types of van der Waals clusters: the aniline-(argon)n molecular clusters and the neat argon Arn clusters.
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Received 16 March 2000
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Parneix, P., Bréchignac, P. Rotation/translation interplay in the recoil statistics of cluster evaporation. Eur. Phys. J. D 13, 43–50 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170285
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170285