Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Heavy N+ ion transfer in doubly charged N2Ar van der Waals cluster

  • XiaoLong Zhu,
  • XiaoQing Hu,
  • ShunCheng Yan,
  • YiGeng Peng,
  • WenTian Feng,
  • DaLong Guo,
  • Yong Gao,
  • ShaoFeng Zhang,
  • Amine Cassimi,
  • JiaWei Xu,
  • DongMei Zhao,
  • DaPu Dong,
  • Bang Hai,
  • Yong Wu,
  • JianGuo Wang,
  • X. Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16749-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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There are multiple ways by which energy and charge transfer occur in weakly bound systems. Here the authors reveal a heavy ion N+ transfer in a doubly charged Van der Waals cluster produced in collisions of the highly charged Ne8+ ion with N2Ar, leading to fragmentation of N+ and NAr+ via Coulomb explosion.