We present a study of cationic and protonated clusters of neon and krypton. Recent studies using argon have shown that protonated rare gas clusters can have very different magic sizes than pure, cationic clusters. Here we find that neon behaves similarly to argon, but that the cationic krypton is more similar to its protonated counterparts than the lighter rare gases are, sharing many of the same magic numbers.
@article{arxiv.1912.01344,
title = {Protonated Clusters of Neon and Krypton},
author = {Michael Gatchell and Paul Martini and Arne Schiller and Paul Scheier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01344},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry