Elastic and rotational excitation cross sections for electron-nitrous oxide collisions

摘要

We present a theoretical study on electron-N2O collision in the low energy range. More specifically, we report calculated elastic and rotationally inelastic differential, integral, and momentum transfer cross sections in the 1.5-30-eV range. An. optical potential is used to represent the electron-molecule interaction. The Schwinger variational method is used to solve the scattering equations. In addition, the adiabatic-nuclei-rotation approximation is applied. to calculate rotational inelastic cross-sections. The comparison between the calculated results and the available experimental and other theoretical data in the literature is encouraging. (C) 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [References: 35]