Kinetics of the radiative relaxation of the highly excited C60 +* ion

The radiation of fullerene molecules from the intersection area of the C₆₀ beam with an electron beam with an energy of 27≤E _e /eV≤100 was studied experimentally under conditions of a single collision. It was found that ionized C₆₀ ^+* molecules make the main contribution to the radiation. The radiation intensity and the temperature of C₆₀ ^+* as functions of the energyE _e were measured. The kinetics of the radiation cooling of C₆₀ ^+* was studied and the rate of the radiation loss of the ion energy (5.5·10⁵ eV s⁻¹) was determined at a temperature of 3150 K. For the heat model of radiation at the wavelength λ=540 nm, this corresponds to the emissivity ε=1.1·10⁻². Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 273–276, February, 2000.