AB initio calculations of electron-molecule scattering cross sections including polarization

Avner Klonover*, Uzi Kaldor

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Abstract

A completely ab initio method for calculating electron-molecule scattering cross sections is presented. The optical potential, expanded in a diagrammatic perturbation series, is obtained as a matrix over a discrete basis set and inserted in the Lippmann-Schwinger equation for the T matrix. Differential and integral cross sections for e-H2 elastic scattering and rotational excitation at 0.6-10 eV show good agreement with experiment. Further applications are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)321-324
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Physics Letters
Volume51
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Oct 1977

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