Cross sections for electron scattering from thiophene for a broad energy range

Alexandra Loupas; Ana I Lozano; Francisco Blanco; Jimena D Gorfinkiel; Gustavo García

doi:10.1063/1.5040352

Cross sections for electron scattering from thiophene for a broad energy range

J Chem Phys. 2018 Jul 21;149(3):034304. doi: 10.1063/1.5040352.

Authors

Alexandra Loupas¹, Ana I Lozano², Francisco Blanco³, Jimena D Gorfinkiel⁴, Gustavo García²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratório de Colisões Atómicas e Moleculares, CEFITEC, Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Lisbon, Portugal.
² Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 113-bis, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
³ Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
⁴ School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom.

PMID: 30037248
DOI: 10.1063/1.5040352

Abstract

We present cross sections for elastic and inelastic electron scattering from thiophene calculated in the energy range 0.1-1000 eV. The R-matrix and independent atom representation-screening-corrected additivity rule (IAM-SCAR) methods were used for low-energy and intermediate and high scattering energies, respectively. The results provide a consistent picture of the scattering process in the whole energy range. The effect of including an interference term in the IAM-SCAR approach is considered. Agreement with prior theoretical results is also discussed.