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Phys. Rev. A 10, 788–792 (1974)

Rotational excitation of CH+ by electron impact

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Shih-I Chu* and A. Dalgarno
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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Received 1 April 1974; published in the issue dated September 1974

The cross sections for the rotational excitation of polar diatomic molecular ions by electron impact are formulated within the Coulomb-Born approximation. The cross sections are finite at threshold. Explicit calculations are reported for the excitation of CH+.

© 1974 The American Physical Society

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*Also Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138.

See Also

Erratum: Shih -I Chu and A. Dalgarno, Erratum: Rotational excitation of CH+ by electron impact, Phys. Rev. A 12, 725 (1975).