Abstract
The half-life of exohedral - complex and that of implanted in a gold foil have been found to be about the same within ≈0.2%. Using a radiochemical technique, we also measured that the probability of formation of endohedral @ complex by nuclear implantation technique was (5.6 ± 0.45)%. We also find that the half-life of endohedral @ complex is shorter than that of exohedral complex by more than 1%. An analysis of these results using linear muffin-tin orbital method calculations indicates that most of the implanted ions in fullerene stay at a distance of from the centers of nearest molecules forming exohedral compounds and those who enter the fullerene cages go to the centers of the cages forming endohedral @ compounds.
- Received 16 September 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.73.034323
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