Introduction and Organization of the Thesis (Chapter 1)
    An Introduction
    Organization of the Thesis

Experimental Apparatus and Methods (Chapter 2)
   Introduction
    Phase 1
        Experimental Apparatus
        Timing
    Phase 2

Ionization Potentials of Cold Silver Clusters (Chapter 3)
   Introduction
    Mass Spectra
    Ionization Potential Determination
    Discussion

A Deformed Sphere Model of the Electronic Structure of Small Metallic Particles (Chapter 4)
   Introduction
    A Spherical Approximation: The Shell Model
        Theoretical Description
        Results
    A Perturbed Sphere and the Loss of Symmetry
        Ideas from Previous Models
        Difficulties with Traditional Models
        Theoretical Description
    Results
    Deformations and Local Minima
    Computational Method

Ag_n⁺ Photodissociation (Chapter 5)
   Introduction
    Experiment
    A Model of Metal Cluster Fragmentation
        Introduction
        The RRKM Model
        Implementation of the Model
        Fragmentation Energies
        Path Degeneracy
        Oscillator Frequency Distributions
        Conversion to Canonical Distributions
    Preliminary Experimental Results and Comparisons with the Model
        Ag₉⁺ Fragmentation
        Other sizes
        Spectroscopic Information

A Geometric Model of Electronic Structure: Icosahedral Structure of Metal Particles (Chapter 6)

List of Figures

Appendix I: Table of Ionization Potentials

Appendix II: Notes on Silver and Its Clusters

Douglas B. Cameron