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Positron-Molecule Collisions: Elastic, Inelastic and Differential Cross Section Calculations

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Atomic Physics with Positrons

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSB,volume 169))

Abstract

There are a whole variety of simple diatomic (H2, D2, N2, O2, CO) to polyatomic (CO2, CH4, N2O, NH3, H2O, SiH4) molecules 2for which positron (e+) scattering has been investigated in the laboratory (see a recent review by Charlton and references therein). Here we are concerned only with the non-linear systems mainly the e+ collisions with CH4, SiH4, NH3 and H2O molecules. For CH4, there are quite a few experimental studies2 – 6 for the total (σt) cross sections, while for the other three gases only the measurements Sueoka and Mori7 – 9 are available for comparison with theoretical results.

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Jain, A. (1987). Positron-Molecule Collisions: Elastic, Inelastic and Differential Cross Section Calculations. In: Humberston, J.W., Armour, E.A.G. (eds) Atomic Physics with Positrons. NATO ASI Series, vol 169. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0963-5_10

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