https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050149
Elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by
N
O*
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do
Paraná, UFPR,
Caixa Postal 19081, 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Corresponding author: a bettega@fisica.ufpr.br
Received:
13
November
1997
Revised:
13
March
1998
Accepted:
9
April
1998
Published online: 15 July 1998
We report elastic integral, momentum transfer and differential cross
sections for electron scattering by N2O for energies up to 50 eV. These
results were obtained at the
static-exchange approximation with the Schwinger Multichannel Method with
Pseudopotentials [M.H.F. Bettega, L.G. Ferreira and M.A.P. Lima, Phys. Rev.
A 47, 1111 (1993)]. In general our results show good agreement with
experimental data and with other theoretical results but some discrepancies
are found. We have also found a 
shape resonance around 4 eV
in agreement with previous calculations using the R-matrix Method of
Sarpal et al. [J. Phys. B 29, 857 (1996)]. On the
other hand, the existence of
a 
resonance at about 13 eV, clearly seen
by the Schwinger Variational Iterative Method [Michelin et al.,
J. Phys. B 29, 2115 (1996)], can not be confirmed by our
calculations. At this energy, our cross sections show a broad
bump with no clear resonant behavior given by the eigenphase sum.
PACS: 34.80.Bm – Elastic scattering of electrons by atoms and molecules / 34.80.Gs – Molecular excitation and ionization by electron impact
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