Department of Experimental Physics, G?teborg University and Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 G?teborg, Sweden, SE Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universit?t Dresden, D-01069 Dresden, Germany, DE
Abstract:
New experimental data is reported for the absolute cross sections for the fusion reaction channel in single gas-phase collisions
between fullerenes. The experimental data is compared with the results of quantum mechanical and classical molecular dynamics
simulations as well as with simple models. Quantum molecular dynamics simulations are in very good quantitative agreement
with the experimental data. The overall dynamical behaviour can be well-described qualitatively in the framework of simple
models.
Received 2 October 2000