Abstract
First results are presented from a new apparatus, consisting of a supersonic beam for generating neutral clusters, a variable energy electron gun for ionizing the clusters, and a tandem mass spectrometer set-up for studying surface induced reactions of mass and energy selected cluster ions. Rare gas cluster ions, fragment ions from SF6, benzene ions and benzene cluster ions have been investigated so far. Cluster ion dissociation, intracluster ion molecule reactions and surface reactions with adsorbed hydrocarbons have been shown to be important reaction channels for these ion-surface collision at energies ranging from a few eV to 500 eV. The surface induced fragmentation spectrum is demonstrated to be a useful tool for probing binding energy and structure of cluster ions.
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