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EPL
Volume 82, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/82/24002
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Non-equilibrium processes following the irradiation of atomic clusters with short pulses of vacuum ultraviolet radiation are modelled using kinetic Boltzmann equations. The dependence of the ionization dynamics on the cluster size is investigated. The predictions on: i) the maximal and average ion charge created, ii) ion charge state distribution, iii) average kinetic energy per ion, iv) spatial charge distribution, and v) thermalization scales are obtained for spherical xenon clusters containing 20, 70, 2500 and 90000 atoms. These clusters were exposed to single rectangular pulses of vacuum ultraviolet radiation of various pulse intensities, I similar to 10(12) - 10(14) W/cm(2) and durations, Delta t <= 50 fs, at a fixed integrated radiation flux of F equivalent to I. Delta t = 0.4J/cm(2). The results obtained are found to be in good agreement with the available experimental data, especially the dependence on the cluster size, if it is assumed that the ions from the positively charged outer layer of the cluster constitute the dominant contribution to the experimentally measured ion charge state distribution. Copyright (c) EPLA, 2008.
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