Abstract

The clusters remaining after photoinduced evaporation of an initial cluster are predicted by a statistical model and compared with recent experiments on ${\left({\text{CO}}_2\right)}_n^{+}$ clusters. The model includes a modification to an RRK/QET formalism, to satisfy detailed balance for ion molecule reactions. This gives a correct average kinetic energy release approximately twice that of uncorrected RRK/QET. Product cluster distributions observed in photodissociation experiments are predicted by a statistical Monte Carlo calculation.

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