Elastic electron scattering by ethylene, C₂H₄

Abstract

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C. Winstead and V. McKoy
A. A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

M. H. F. Bettega
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19044, 81531-990, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Received 15 July 2005; published 31 October 2005

Wereport first-principles calculations on the elastic scattering of low-energy electronsby ethylene, C₂H₄. We introduce a simple but effective methodof representing polarization effects and show that it provides differentialcross sections in close agreement with experiment.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.042721
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevA.72.042721
PACS:	34.80.Bm 34.80.Bm Elastic scattering of electrons by atoms and molecules YEAR: 2005
KEYWORDS:	organic compounds, molecule-electron collisions, ab initio calculations, polarisation