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Published February 1, 1993 | Published
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Electronic excitation of CH_4 by low-energy electron impact

Abstract

We report cross sections for excitation of the (1t_2→3sa_1) singlet and triplet states of methane by low‐energy electron impact. The cross sections for these dissociative states were obtained using the Schwinger multichannel variational method with up to seven channels (three physical states) coupled. Aspects of the convergence with respect to channel coupling are discussed. A preliminary comparison with the recently measured CH_2 fragment production cross section [T. Nakano, H. Toyoda, and H. Sugai, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 30, 2912 (1991)] shows fair agreement.

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© 1993 American Institute of Physics. (Received 27 August 1992; accepted 23 October 1992) This work made use of the Mark III^(fp) computers of the Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facility and of the Intel iPSC/860 and Touchstone Delta Computers of the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium. Financial support by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-9021933 and by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization through the Army Research Office is gratefully acknowledged.

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