Abstract

Computer simulations of the dissociation dynamics of argon and xenon neutral and singly charged clusters with 5 - 20 atoms were performed. It is shown that the stability of clusters with ‘magic numbers’ of atoms (n = 19 for argon, and n = 13,19 for xenon) as found in TOF mass spectra, is more enhanced by ionization than that of their neighbours, indicating the importance of the ionization for the cluster size distribution found in experiments.

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