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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL D
Volume 75, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00112-9
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- University of Innsbruck
- Medical University of Innsbruck
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Experimental study on rubidium cluster submersion in helium droplets shows that clusters undergo a gradual submersion transition similar to potassium, ultimately leading to full submersion of clusters larger than around 100 Rb atoms, consistent with previous theoretical and experimental studies.
Alkali atoms and small clusters are known to reside on the surface of a helium droplet rather than its inside as most other dopant species. A theoretical investigation suggested that alkali clusters (Li-Rb) exceeding a certain critical size can become submerged in the droplet, which was experimentally confirmed for sodium and potassium. Here, we report an analogous experimental study of rubidium cluster submersion by means of electron impact mass spectrometry. We recorded size distributions of Rb cluster ions at various electron energies between 8 and 160 eV. Our data suggest that Rb clusters attached to helium droplets undergo a gradual submersion transition similar to potassium, ultimately leading to the full submersion of clusters larger than similar to 100 Rb atoms. Our findings are consistent with previous theoretical and experimental studies. 1 Introduction
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