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2026

Ben Shabo, Yehuda ; Müll, Damian ; Schmidt, Viviane C. et al. / Radiative cooling of isolated Al−5 cluster ions observed on ultralong timescales as a test case for the validity of the harmonic cascade model. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2026 ; Vol. 28, No. 14. pp. 8715-8725.

2024

Roth, Michal ; Toker, Yoni ; Major, Dan T. / Monte Carlo-Simulated Annealing and Machine Learning-Based Funneled Approach for Finding the Global Minimum Structure of Molecular Clusters. In: ACS Omega. 2024 ; Vol. 9, No. 1. pp. 1298-1309.

2023

Licht, Ori ; Barreiro-Lage, Darío ; Rousseau, Patrick et al. / Peptide Bond Formation in the Protonated Serine Dimer Following Vacuum UV Photon-Induced Excitation. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2023 ; Vol. 62, No. 15.
Hansen, Klavs ; Licht, Ori ; Kurbanov, Adeliya et al. / Cascade Infrared Thermal Photon Emission. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2023 ; Vol. 127, No. 13. pp. 2889-2894.
Licht, Ori ; Nihamkin, Maria ; Anaby, Mirit et al. / Vacuum UV studies of protonated serine clusters. In: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2023 ; Vol. 56, No. 20.
Ben-Shabo, Yehuda ; Kurbanov, Adeliya ; Schröter, Claus Dieter et al. / Velocity map imaging with no spherical aberrations. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2023 ; Vol. 25, No. 37. pp. 25122-25129.

2021

Toker, Y. ; Andersen, L. H. / Gas-phase studies of the retinal protonated Schiff base chromophore. In: European Physical Journal D. 2021 ; Vol. 75, No. 1.
Zettergren, Henning ; Domaracka, Alicja ; Schlathölter, Thomas et al. / Roadmap on dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase. In: European Physical Journal D. 2021 ; Vol. 75, No. 5.

2020

Nihamkin, Maria ; Isaak, Avinoam ; Albeck, Amnon et al. / Gas Phase Bond Formation in Dipeptide Clusters. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2020 ; Vol. 11, No. 23. pp. 10100-10105.
Kahana, Michal ; Musbat, Lihi ; Nihamkin, Maria et al. / Harmonic height distribution in pickup spectroscopy within electrostatic ion beam traps. In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 2020 ; Vol. 91, No. 4.

2019

Ben Yaacov, Adva ; Chen, Lei ; Musbat, Lihi et al. / Clusters of betaine with positive and negative ions : Evidence for the betaine tetramer being magic. In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 2019 ; Vol. 151, No. 18.
Nihamkin, M. ; Kaiser, A. ; Nemtsov, I. et al. / Chiral recognition via abundances of mixed chiral clusters. In: International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 2019 ; Vol. 446.

2018

El-Baba, Tarick J. ; Fuller, Daniel R. ; Woodall, Daniel W. et al. / Melting proteins confined in nanodroplets with 10.6 μm light provides clues about early steps of denaturation. In: Chemical Communications. 2018 ; Vol. 54, No. 26. pp. 3270-3273.
Toker, Y. / Watching Molecules Change Their Shape. XXI st. Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics 2018. 2018. pp. 41 (XXIst Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics 2018 (SASP 2018),).
Toker, Yoni ; Langeland, Jeppe ; Gruber, Elisabeth et al. / Counterion-controlled spectral tuning of the protonated Schiff-base retinal. In: Physical Review A. 2018 ; Vol. 98, No. 4.
Musbat, Lihi ; Assis, Shirrel ; Dilger, Jonathan M. et al. / Action and Ion Mobility Spectroscopy of a Shortened Retinal Derivative. In: Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 2018 ; Vol. 29, No. 11. pp. 2152-2159.

2017

Musbat, L. ; Nihamkin, M. ; Toker, Y. et al. / Measurements of the stabilities of isolated retinal chromophores. In: Physical Review E. 2017 ; Vol. 95, No. 1.
Fradkin, Z. ; Strasser, D. ; Heber, O. et al. / Protein and peptide cross sections and mass spectra in an electrostatic ion beam trap. In: Journal of Instrumentation. 2017 ; Vol. 12, No. 5.
Chandrasekaran, Vijayanand ; Prabhakaran, Aneesh ; Kafle, Bhim et al. / Formation and stabilization of C6− by radiative electron attachment. In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 2017 ; Vol. 146, No. 9.

2016

Toker, Y. / EPOLM and XLIC WG2 meeting. Paper presented at Watching Isolated Molecules Change their Shape, Stockholm, Sweden.
Toker, Yoni. / The Molecular Basis for Vision - Investigated Using Action Spectroscopy and Ion Mobility Spectroscopy. 2016. Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Department of Physical Chemistry.
Rahinov, Igor ; Toker, Yoni ; Hansen, Klavs et al. / Effect of a localized charge on the stability of Van der Waals clusters. In: European Physical Journal D. 2016 ; Vol. 70, No. 12.
Toker, Y. / Isomerization and Fragmentation of Retinal Chromophore Derivatives. Paper presented at 12th European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons (ECAMP12), Frankfurt, Germany.
Musbat, Lihi ; Nihamkin, Maria ; Ytzhak, Shany et al. / Isotope Labeling Study of Retinal Chromophore Fragmentation. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2016 ; Vol. 120, No. 16. pp. 2547-2549.
Milne, Bruce F. ; Kjær, Christina ; Houmøller, Jørgen et al. / On the exciton coupling between two chlorophyll pigments in the absence of a protein environment : Intrinsic effects revealed by theory and experiment. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2016 ; Vol. 55, No. 21. pp. 6248-6251.
Toker, Y. / Organic Ions and Isomeric Structure. Paper presented at Research Opportunities at Cryogenic Electrostatic Storage Rings, Germany.
Toker, Y. / כיצד לארוז כדורים. In: גליליאו: כתב עת למדע ומחשבה. 2016 ; Vol. 140. pp. 16.
Toker, Yoni. / Direct determination of the barrier energy for isomerization of the retinal chromphore. 2016. Tel Aviv University; Department of Physics.
Milne, B.F. ; Kjær, C. ; Houmøller, J. et al. / On the Exciton Coupling between Two Chlorophyll Pigments in the Absence of a Protein Environment: Intrinsic Effects Revealed by Theory and Experiment. In: Angewandte Chemie. 2016 ; Vol. 128, No. 21. pp. 6356-6359.

2015

Dilger, Jonathan ; Musbat, Lihi ; Sheves, Mordechai et al. / Direct measurement of the isomerization barrier of the isolated retinal chromophore. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2015 ; Vol. 54, No. 16. pp. 4748-4752.
Dilger, Jonathan ; Musbat, Lihi ; Sheves, Mordechai et al. / Direct Measurement of the Isomerization Barrier of the Isolated Retinal Chromophore. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2015 ; Vol. 635, No. 3.
Stockett, Mark H. ; HoumØller, JØrgen ; Kjær, Christina et al. / Action spectroscopy of chlorophyll and other coordination complexes. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2015 ; Vol. 635, No. 11.
Toker, Y. / Distinguishing molecules according to their shape. Paper presented at Laboratory astrophysics meeting, Heidelberg.
Dilger, Jonathan ; Musbat, Lihi ; Sheves, Mordechai et al. / Frontispiece : Direct Measurement of the Isomerization Barrier of the Isolated Retinal Chromophore. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2015 ; Vol. 54, No. 16.
Pedersen, H. B. ; Svendsen, A. ; Harbo, L. S. et al. / Characterization of a new electrostatic storage ring for photofragmentation experiments. In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 2015 ; Vol. 86, No. 6.
Milne, Bruce F. ; Toker, Yoni ; Rubio, Angel et al. / Unraveling the intrinsic color of chlorophyll. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2015 ; Vol. 54, No. 7. pp. 2170-2173.
Stockett, Mark H. ; Musbat, Lihi ; Kjær, Christina et al. / The Soret absorption band of isolated chlorophyll a and b tagged with quaternary ammonium ions. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2015 ; Vol. 17, No. 39. pp. 25793-25798.
Chandrasekaran, V. ; Kafle, B. ; Prabhakaran, A. et al. / Radiative stabilization of C6-. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2015 ; Vol. 635, No. 11.

2014

Chandrasekaran, Vijayanand ; Kafle, Bhim ; Prabhakaran, Aneesh et al. / Determination of absolute recurrent fluorescence rate coefficients for C 6 -. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2014 ; Vol. 5, No. 23. pp. 4078-4082.
Toker, Yoni. / Quantum mechanics, Light and Life. 2014. The Open University.
Bochenkova, Anastasia V. ; Klærke, Benedikte ; Rahbek, Dennis B. et al. / UV excited-state photoresponse of Biochromophore negative ions. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2014 ; Vol. 53, No. 37. pp. 9797-9801.
Bochenkova, A. V. ; Klaerke, B. ; Rahbek, D. B. et al. / UV Excited-State of Biochromophore Negative Ions. In: Angewandte Chemie. 2014 ; Vol. 126, No. 37. pp. 9955-9959.
Toker, Y. ; Schwalm, D. ; Andersen, L. H. et al. / Sidebands from longitudinal bunch oscillations in an electrostatic ion beam trap. In: Journal of Instrumentation. 2014 ; Vol. 9, No. 4.
Toker, Yoni. / Direct Measurement of the isomerization barrier of the isolated retinal chromphore. 2014. University of Aarhus; AMO seminar.

2013

Aviv, O. ; Kafle, B. ; Chandrasekaran, V. et al. / Absolute photo-destruction and photo-fragmentation cross section measurements using an electrostatic ion beam trap. In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 2013 ; Vol. 84, No. 5.
Toker, Y. ; Rahbek, D. B. ; Kiefer, H. V. et al. / Photoresponse of the protonated Schiff-base retinal chromophore in the gas phase. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2013 ; Vol. 15, No. 45. pp. 19566-19569.
Toker, Y. / The effect of a localized charge on the structure and stability of Van-der-Waals clusters. Paper presented at 5th international Workshop on Electrostatic Storage Devices, Heidelberg, Germany.
Toker, Y. / The physics of the isolated Retinal Chromophore. Paper presented at 59th Annual meeting of the Israeli Physical Society, Rehovot, Israel.
Pedersen, HB ; Bechtold, H ; Harbo, LS et al. / The new electrostatic storage ring saphira. 5th international Workshop on Electrostatic Storage Devices, Heidelberg, Germany.
Klærke, B. ; Toker, Y. ; Rahbek, D. B. et al. / Formation and stability of hydrogenated PAHs in the gas phase. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2013 ; Vol. 549.
Toker, Y. / Direct and Indirect Electron Emission from Gas Phase Biochromophores. Paper presented at OASIS 2013, 14th International meeting on optical engineering and science in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Toker, Y. / Experimental investigations of thermodynamical properties of small molecules and clusters. Paper presented at European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons 2013 (ECAMP 11), Aarhus, Denmark.

2012

Rahinov, Igor ; Toker, Yoni ; Heber, Oded et al. / Lifetime measurements in an electrostatic ion beam trap using image charge monitoring. In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 2012 ; Vol. 83, No. 3.
Lange, M. ; Froese, M. W. ; Menk, S. et al. / Radiative cooling of Al?4 and Al?5 in a cryogenic environment. In: New Journal of Physics. 2012 ; Vol. 14.
Aravind, G. ; Klrke, B. ; Rajput, J. et al. / Photodissociation pathways and lifetimes of protonated peptides and their dimers. In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 2012 ; Vol. 136, No. 1.
Toker, Yoni ; Svendsen, Annette ; Bochenkova, Anastasia V. et al. / Probing the barrier for internal rotation of the retinal chromophore. In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 2012 ; Vol. 51, No. 35. pp. 8757-8761.
Toker, Y. ; Rahbek, D. B. ; Klærke, B. et al. / Direct and indirect electron emission from the green fluorescent protein chromophore. In: Physical Review Letters. 2012 ; Vol. 109, No. 12.
Froese, M. W. ; Lange, M. ; Menk, S. et al. / The decay of ion bunches in the self-bunching mode. In: New Journal of Physics. 2012 ; Vol. 14.
Toker, Y. ; Rahinov, I. ; Schwalm, D. et al. / Blackbody-induced radiative dissociation of cationic SF 6 clusters. In: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 2012 ; Vol. 86, No. 2.

2011

Froese, M. W. ; Blaum, K. ; Fellenberger, F. et al. / Thermionic power-law decay of excited aluminum-cluster anions and its dependence on storage-device temperature. In: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 2011 ; Vol. 83, No. 2.
Toker, Y. / כוכב הרוק של עולם החומרים. In: Galileo. 2011 ; Vol. 148. pp. 30-30.
Toker, Y. / המרדף אחר הניוטרינו. In: Young Galileo. 2011 ; pp. 2-2.
Aviv, O. ; Toker, Y. ; Strasser, D. et al. / Competition between delayed ionization and fragmentation of laser-excited Al4-. In: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 2011 ; Vol. 83, No. 2.
Toker, Y. / The retinal Chromophore ion and its heat capacity. Paper presented at th international workshop on electrostatic storage devices, Gatlinburg, Tenesee, United States.

2010

Toker, Y. / פרוטון ומיואון בארץ ליליפוט. In: Galileo. 2010 ; Vol. 146. pp. 17-17.
Toker, Y. / מבעד למראה ומה שראה שם- הספד למרטין גרדנר. In: Galileo. 2010 ; Vol. 143. pp. 78-78.
Toker, Y. / קוהרנציה בפוטוסינתזה. In: Galileo. 2010 ; Vol. 145. pp. 14-14.
Toker, Y. / The Radiative Cooling of Al4-. Paper presented at CAARI 2008, 20th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
Toker, Y. / מאיץ חלקיקים לטיפול בסרטן. In: Galileo. 2010 ; Vol. 141. pp. 16-16.
Aviv, O. ; Toker, Y. ; Rajput, J. et al. / Search for dimer emission from photoexcited Al4-. In: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 2010 ; Vol. 82, No. 3.
Lange, M. ; Froese, M. ; Menk, S. et al. / A cryogenic electrostatic trap for long-time storage of keV ion beams. In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 2010 ; Vol. 81, No. 5.

2009

Aviv, O. ; Toker, Y. ; Strasser, D. et al. / Competition between ionization and fragmentation of small aluminum cluster anions. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2009 ; Vol. 194, No. 15.
Toker, Y. ; Altstein, N. ; Aviv, O. et al. / The kick-out mass selection technique for ions stored in an Electrostatic Ion Beam Trap. In: Journal of Instrumentation. 2009 ; Vol. 4, No. 9.

2008

Aviv, O. ; Toker, Y. ; Errit, M. et al. / A bent electrostatic ion beam trap for simultaneous measurements of fragmentation and ionization of cluster ions. In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 2008 ; Vol. 79, No. 8.

2007

Toker, Y. ; Aviv, O. ; Eritt, M. et al. / Radiative cooling of Al4- clusters. In: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 2007 ; Vol. 76, No. 5.
Toker, Y. / Delayed Electron Emission as a Tool for Studying the Thermodynamics of Clusters. Paper presented at Israeli Physics Society Meeting.
Toker, Y. / The Radiative Cooling of Al4- Studied Through Delayed Electron Emission. Paper presented at Young Scientist Forum, ITS-LEIF 2nd annual meeting, Crete, Greece.
Toker, Y. ; Aviv, O. ; Eritt, M. et al. / Radiative cooling of Al-4(-) clusters. In: Physical Review A. 2007 ; Vol. 26. pp. 53201-53201.

2006

Eritt, M. ; Diner, A. ; Toker, Y. et al. / Size effects in the interaction between ionic clusters and low-energy electrons. In: Physica Scripta. 2006 ; Vol. 73, No. 1. pp. C32-C35.
Heber, O. ; Gloser, R. ; Gnasser, H. et al. / Lifetimes of the negative molecular hydrogen ions: H 2−, D 2−, and HD−. In: Physical Review A. 2006 ; Vol. 73.
Heber, O. ; Golser, R. ; Gnaser, H. et al. / Lifetimes of the negative molecular hydrogen ions : H2-, D2-, and H D. In: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 2006 ; Vol. 73, No. 6.

2005

Heber, O. ; Witte, P.D. ; Diner, A. et al. / Electrostatic ion beam trap for electron collision studies. In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 2005 ; Vol. 76. pp. 13104-13104.
Toker, Jonathan D. ; Tremblay, Martin R. ; Yli-Kauhaluoma, Jari et al. / Exploring the scope of the 29G12 antibody catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. In: Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2005 ; Vol. 70, No. 20. pp. 7810-7815.
Zajfman, D. ; Heber, O. ; Diner, A. et al. / Electron impact detachment of small negative clusters. In: Institute of Physics Conference Series. 2005 ; Vol. 183. pp. 173-181.

2004

Diner, A. ; Toker, Y. ; Strasser, D. et al. / Size-dependent electron-impact detachment of internally cold C n- and Aln- clusters. In: Physical Review Letters. 2004 ; Vol. 93, No. 6. pp. 063402-1-063402-4.
Heber, O. ; Altstein, N. ; Ben-Itzhak, I. et al. / Electrostatic ion beam trap. In: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 2004 ; Vol. 2. pp. 1110-1113.
Toker, Y. / Electron impact neutralization of negative carbon clusters. Paper presented at 6th international conference on Dissociative Recombination: Theory, experiment and Applications, Mosbach, Germany.

2003

Diner, A. ; Toker, Y. ; Strasser, D. et al. / Size-Dependent Electron-Impact Detachment of Internally Cold C n− and A ln− Clusters. In: Physical Review Letters. 2003 ; Vol. 93. pp. 63402-63402.

2000

Toker, Jonathan D. ; Wentworth, Paul ; Hu, Yunfeng et al. / Antibody-catalysis of a bimolecular asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction [15]. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2000 ; Vol. 122, No. 13. pp. 3244-3245.

1999

Sieber, Frank ; Wentworth, Paul ; Toker, Jonathan D. et al. / Development and application of a poly(ethylene glycol)-supported triarylphosphine reagent : Expanding the sphere of liquid-phase organic synthesis. In: Journal of Organic Chemistry. 1999 ; Vol. 64, No. 14. pp. 5188-5192.
Sieber, F. ; Wentworth P., Jr ; Toker, J. D. et al. / Erratum : Development and application of a poly(ethylene glycol)- supported triarylphosphine reagent: Expanding the sphere of liquid-phase organic chemistry (Journal of Organic Chemistry (1999) 64 (5192)). In: Journal of Organic Chemistry. 1999 ; Vol. 64, No. 21. pp. 8058.