Abstract
We present experimental results on the scattering of neutral water clusters from graphite surfaces. We use cluster beams with an average cluster size up to 3700 molecules and an incident velocity of 1300 m/s, and study the emission of negatively and positively charged cluster fragments from the surface. The ionization probability is found to depend on cluster size and surface temperature, and for a given mean cluster size the emission rate of positive and negative cluster ions follows the Arrhenius equation. In the surface temperature range 950–1450 K, activation energies of 0.52±0.02 and 3.1±0.3 eV are determined for the emission of positive and negative ions, respectively. The emission of negative cluster fragments is attributed to electron transfer from the surface, and we estimate an electron affinity of 1.4±0.3 eV for large water clusters. Positive cluster fragments are proposed to be formed by dissocative ionization inside the cluster, followed by removal of the negative ion during surface contact.
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