Fig. 3: Measured and AIMD calculated Dalitz plots.

a, Experiment. b–i Calculations for eight different conformers of the benzene trimer: C-trimer (b), PD (c), PDT (d), PDS (e), ST (f), S (g), T1 (h), and T2 (i) conformers. Also included in (d) is the calculated three-body Dalitz plot. Note that ϵj denotes randomly the relative energy of the three \({{{{{{{{{\rm{C}}}}}}}}}_{6}{{{{{{{{\rm{H}}}}}}}}}_{6}}^{+}\) ions since they are indistinguishable. The color bar is linear with arbitrary units. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.