Dynamics of excited sodium atoms attached to helium nanodroplets

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 118, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2738-2748

  Loginov, Evgeniy ^a,b   Drabbels, Marcel ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SICPA SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DESORPTION; HELIUM; KINETICS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM THEORY; SODIUM;

DESORPTION PROCESS; ENERGY PARTITIONING; EXCITATION FREQUENCY; FORMATION PROCESS; HELIUM NANODROPLETS; INTERACTION POTENTIALS; INTERNAL ENERGIES; SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATOM LASERS;

EID: 84899012845     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4121996     Document Type: Article

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