The impact of vibrational wave function on low energy electron vibrational scattering from nitrogen molecule

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/8/083401

Abstract

The vibrational wave function of the target theoretically plays an important role in the calculation of vibrational excitation cross sections. By a careful study of the differential cross sections resulting from different vibrational wave functions we find that cross sections are susceptible to vibrational wave functions. Minor changes in the vibration wave function may cause a significant change in the cross section. Even more surprising is that by selecting a few numbers of potential models (which determine the vibrational wave functions) we can often calculate the differential scattering cross section in much closer agreement with experiment in the framework of body-frame vibrational close-coupling theory, which suggest that an accurate potential energy may play a more important role in scattering than we thought before.

Keywords: vibrational scattering vibrational wavefunction nitrogen molecule

Received: 07 February 2017
Revised: 19 April 2017
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34.80.Bm

(Elastic scattering)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11647058), the Fund for Sichuan Distinguished Scientists (Grant No. 2015JQ0042), and the Youth Innovation Team of the Education Department of Sichuan Province, China (Grant No. 14TD0013).

Corresponding Authors: Hao Feng
E-mail: fenghao@mail.xhu.edu.cn

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Jia Fu(付佳), Hao Feng(冯灏), Yi Zhang(张燚) The impact of vibrational wave function on low energy electron vibrational scattering from nitrogen molecule 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 083401

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