Left: inner semi-major axis distribution of the initial population (black) and the corresponding final outcomes (colours). Yellow lines refer to binary mergers, green lines to binaries that evaporate, magenta lines to binaries that are ejected (unbound from the SMBH), red lines to intact binaries (i.e. binaries that survive to 10 Gyr), and blue lines to evolved binaries (stellar evolution of the primary occurs before binary destruction and by 10 Gyr). In the cases of evaporation and mergers, the properties shown in the figure refer to the binary just before either destruction mechanism takes place. Ejection corresponds to the region the binaries were ejected from and not where they end up. The top row corresponds to binaries starting with a_• = 0.1 pc from the SMBH, while the bottom row corresponds to a_• = 0.3 pc. Right: outer semi-major axis distributions. The vertical black lines represent the initial populations, and the boxes of the final outcomes are coloured in the same way as in the left panel.