Nonequilibrium internal and translational temperature of clusters in homogeneous nucleation

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Abstract
Recent experiments show that the translational temperature of clusters in a beam expansion increases with cluster size. We present a general theory for steady-state nucleation of pure gases, explaining this observation as a combination of two effects: the heating of the clusters by condensation and an induced Maxwellian motion by rocketlike emission of fast monomers from clusters.