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Published January 15, 1993 | Published
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Low-energy elastic electron scattering by tetrafluoromethane (CF_4)

Abstract

We report cross sections for electronically elastic electron scattering by CF_4 from 1 to 40 eV, calculated within the static‐exchange approximation using the Schwinger multichannel method. Although the static‐exchange approximation does not give results that are accurate in detail below 20 eV, it is useful in understanding resonant features in the elastic and vibrationally inelastic cross sections. Above 20 eV, where the static‐exchange approximation is more reliable, we derive a dissociation cross section in fair agreement with experiment by subtracting our result from the measured total cross section. We compare our integral and differential cross sections with the results of recent elastic and vibrationally inelastic scattering experiments.

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© 1993 American Institute of Physics. (Received 25 August 1992; accepted 29 September 1992) The calculations reported here employed the facilities of the CSCC, of the Phillips Laboratory-Kirtland Supercomputing Center (USAF), and of the JPL/Caltech Supercomputing Project. Financial support by the NSF under Grant No. PHY-9021933, by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization through the Army Research Office, and by the IBM-Caltech Cooperative Research Fund is gratefully acknowledged.

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