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Published August 15, 1987 | public
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Correlation effects in elastic e-N2 scattering

Abstract

The Schwinger multichannel formulation has been applied to study the role of electron correlation in low-energy e-N2 scattering. For the five nonresonant partial-wave channels studied here, 2Σg+, 2Σu+, 2Πu, 2Δg, and 2Δu, we find angular correlation to be much more important than radial correlation. Our results for the 2Σg+ channel are in agreement with those of Schneider and Collins [Phys. Rev. A 30, 95 (1984)]. Our calculated total and differential cross sections agree with experiment except for the differential cross sections at 1.5 eV. Our results are also compared with those obtained using model polarization potentials.

Additional Information

©1987 The American Physical Society Received 24 February 1987 The research of W.M.H. is supported by NASA-Ames Cooperative Agreement No. NCC 2-147. The research at the California Institute of Technology is supported by NASA-Ames Cooperative Agreement NCC 2-319, the National Science Foundation, Grant No. PHY-8604242, and by the Innovative Science and Technology Program of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization under Contract No. DAAL03-86-K-0140. One of us (M.A.P.L.) acknowledges financial support from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), São Paulo, Brazil.

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