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Published November 1, 1990 | Published
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Low-energy electron scattering by silane (SiH_4)

Abstract

We have applied the Schwinger multichannel formulation [K. Takatsuka and V. McKoy, Phys. Rev. A 24, 2473 (1981)] to the elastic scattering of low-energy (1–30-eV) electrons by silane. Our results, obtained within the fixed-nuclei, static-exchange approximation, are in generally good agreement with recent differential, integral, and momentum-transfer cross-section measurements between 5 and 30 eV. At lower energies, our results reflect the known limitations of the static-exchange approximation. Near the shape resonance, the calculated differential cross section shows significant enhancement at high angles, suggesting an explanation for differences between integral cross sections determined from integrated differential data and those obtained from transmission measurements.

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© 1990 American Physical Society. (Received 11 December 1989; revised manuscript received 9 July 1990) This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-8604242, the Innovative Science and Technology Program of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization under Contract No. DAAL03-86-K-0140 of the U.S. Army Research Office, and NASA-Ames Cooperative Agreement No. NCC2-319. We thank Professor John Moore and Dr. David Spence for providing their experimental results in advance of publication. We also thank Professor O. Sueoka for providing unpublished results. This work made use of facilities provided by the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois, which is supported by the National Science Foundation, and of facilities provided through the Supercomputing Project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including those of the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Program at the NASA-Ames Research Center.

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