Thermal radiative cooling of carbon cluster cations C${}_N^{+}$, $N=9,11,12,17-27$

Shimpei Iida, Wei Hu, Rui Zhang +6

The radiative cooling rates of C${}_N^{+}$ clusters ($N=9,11,12,17-27$) have been measured in the ultrahigh vacuum of an electrostatic storage ring to values on the order of $10^4…