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Interaction of anionic tin clusters Snn−, n = 7 − 75 with electrons – polyanion production and cluster decay

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Size-selected monoanionic tin clusters Snn−, n = 7 − 75, are stored simultaneously with electrons in a Penning trap to produce poly-anionic clusters by electron attachment. In addition to doubly and triply charged clusters with the size of the precursors, fragments such as Sn−n−7, Sn−n−10 or Snn−15 are observed in the lower size range (n ≲ 50). The latter come along with the clusters Sn−10 and Sn−15, probably due to fission of doubly charged clusters as in the case of the group-14 neighbor-element lead [König et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163001 (2018)]. Furthermore, prominent doubly charged products Sn2−n−15 seem to be produced by break-off of neutral decamers, a feature not yet observed for any other dianionic cluster. In addition, while almost no monomer evaporation is observed for singly charged clusters, this process does occur for doubly charged ones.

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    Stephan König, Markus Wolfram, Steffi Bandelow, Gerrit Marx & Lutz Schweikhard

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Contribution to the Topical Issue “Atomic Cluster Collisions”, edited by Alexey Verkhovtsev, Andrey V. Solov’yov, Germán Rojas-Lorenzo, and Jesús Rubayo Soneira.

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König, S., Wolfram, M., Bandelow, S. et al. Interaction of anionic tin clusters Snn−, n = 7 − 75 with electrons – polyanion production and cluster decay. Eur. Phys. J. D 72, 153 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2018-90158-y

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