Berthias F, Feketeová L, Della Negra R, Dupasquier T, Fillol R, Abdoul-Carime H, Farizon B, Farizon M, Märk T D
Université de Lyon, F-69003 Lyon, France; Université Lyon 1, Lyon, Villeurbanne, France; and CNRS/IN2P3, UMR5822, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, F-69622 Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Leopold Franzens Universität, Technikerstrasse 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2018 Jan;89(1):013107. doi: 10.1063/1.5001162.
The combination of the Dispositif d'Irradiation d'Agrégats Moléculaire with the correlated ion and neutral time of flight-velocity map imaging technique provides a new way to explore processes occurring subsequent to the excitation of charged nano-systems. The present contribution describes in detail the methods developed for the quantitative measurement of branching ratios and cross sections for collision-induced dissociation processes of water cluster nano-systems. These methods are based on measurements of the detection efficiency of neutral fragments produced in these dissociation reactions. Moreover, measured detection efficiencies are used here to extract the number of neutral fragments produced for a given charged fragment.
