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Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3289–3292 (1996)

Collision Energy Dependence of Molecular Fusion and Fragmentation in C60+ + C60 Collisions

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Frank Rohmund and Eleanor E. B. Campbell*
Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Postfach 1107, D-12474 Berlin, Germany

Olaf Knospe, Gotthard Seifert, and Rüdiger Schmidt
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany

Received 4 December 1995; published in the issue dated 29 April 1996

Interactions between systems with a large but finite number of degrees of freedom play an important role in many branches of physics ranging from nuclear collisions to collisions between galaxies. We report the first experimental collision energy dependence of the fusion cross section for atomic cluster-cluster collisions and compare the results with quantum molecular dynamics calculations and a phenomenological fusion model. In addition, we discuss the similarities and differences to nuclear heavy ion collisions.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3289
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3289
PACS:
36.40.-c

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.

 
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