Sequential Reaction Channels of Metastable C4+60
Abstract
We employ a two-sector-field mass spectrometer to identify sequential, unimolecular dissociation channels of C4+60. In addition to sequential ``monomer evaporations'' (loss of two C2 units), we observe two novel sequential channels which involve fissionlike events: loss of C+2 followed by evaporation, and sequential loss of two C+2 units.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3861
- Bibcode:
- 1997PhRvL..79.3861D