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
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Received:
13
November
1997
Revised:
13
March
1998
Accepted:
9
April
1998
Published online: 15 July 1998
Abstract
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
Dedicated to Prof. Luiz Guimarães Ferreira on the occasion of his 60th birthday
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1998
