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We study the head-on collision of a heliophilic xenon atom with a superfluid $$^4$$4He droplet made of 1000 atoms. At variance with the findings for a heliophobic cesium atom of… Click to show full abstract
We study the head-on collision of a heliophilic xenon atom with a superfluid $$^4$$4He droplet made of 1000 atoms. At variance with the findings for a heliophobic cesium atom of a similar atomic weight, it is found that the xenon atom has to hit the droplet with a large kinetic energy in order to get across it without being captured. When it is not captured, the xenon impurity does not emerge as a bare atom; instead, due to its heliophilic character it carries away some helium atoms.
Keywords:
atom;
4he nanodroplets;
atoms superfluid;
collisions atoms;
superfluid 4he;
head collisions
Journal Title: Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Year Published: 2017
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