https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-023-00728-z
Regular Article – Atomic and Molecular Collisions
Experimental and BEf-scaled cross sections for electron-impact excitation of ammonia molecules from near threshold to high-intermediate energy
1
Department of Materials and Life Sciences, Sophia University, 102-8554, Tokyo, Japan
2
Atomic and Molecular Collisions Laboratory, CEFITEC, Department of Physics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal
Received:
9
June
2023
Accepted:
5
July
2023
Published online:
26
July
2023
Absolute differential and integral cross sections (DCSs and ICSs) for the lowest-lying singlet excitations in ammonia (NH3) molecules have been measured from near threshold to 400 eV using angle-revolved electron energy loss spectroscopy. Normalizing the angular distributions of inelastically scattered electrons to the absolute DCS of He as the reference, the reliable absolute cross sections for the 
excitation were obtained in a wider impact energy range. The BEf-scaled ICS was also derived as a function of incident electron energy from the generalized oscillator strengths analysis using the corresponding DCS measured at higher impact energies. The experimental ICS of the singlet excitation in the present study has reasonably reproduced the BEf-scaled ICS in the energy of not only higher impact energies but also near the threshold energy within the experimental uncertainties. The present absolute measurement has suggested that the BEf-scaling law was confirmed to be quite useful to NH3 molecules even towards the threshold energy.
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