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Dissociation energies of silver clusters Agn+, n=14, 15, 16, 18

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A recently developed method to determine dissociation energies has been applied to positively charged silver clusters of size n=14, 15, 16 and 18. The method uses a combination of sequential and single step decays. It requires an uncalibrated thermometer which here is provided by the evaporation rate constants of the product clusters. For this purpose, earlier measurements [J. Chem. Phys. 57 (1998) 2786] are reanalyzed with the new method. The resulting dissociation energies are compared with the liquid drop values and the measured decay rate constants with expected rate constants from detailed balance theory.