https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-022-00460-0
Regular Article – Atomic and Molecular Collisions
Vibrational excitation in the nitrogen molecule by electron impact
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Rua Eng. Agronômico Andrei Cristian Ferreira, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Received:
5
May
2022
Accepted:
14
July
2022
Published online:
27
July
2022
We present a study of low energy electron-
scattering, with focus on vibrational excitations. Differential excitation cross sections are calculated using the multichannel version of the continued fractions method in the body-frame vibrational close-coupling scheme for the incident energy below 
. The electron-molecule interaction potential is treated in the static-exchange-polarization-correlation approximation, where the exchange interaction is treated exactly. The results are compared with experimental data available in the literature.
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