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Phys. Rev. A 72, 042721 (2005) [5 pages]

Elastic electron scattering by ethylene, C2H4

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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

We report first-principles calculations on the elastic scattering of low-energy electrons by ethylene, C2H4. We introduce a simple but effective method of representing polarization effects and show that it provides differential cross sections in close agreement with experiment.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.042721
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.042721
PACS:
34.80.Bm