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Muon Transfer From Muonic Hydrogen To Atomic Oxygen And Nitrogen, Anh-Thu Le, C. D. Lin
Muon Transfer From Muonic Hydrogen To Atomic Oxygen And Nitrogen, Anh-Thu Le, C. D. Lin
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The results of diabatic hyperspherical close-coupling calculations are presented for the charge exchange of a negative muon from muonic hydrogen to oxygen and nitrogen for collision energies from 10-3 to 103 eV. It is shown that converged results can be obtained using a much smaller number of channels than in the traditional adiabatic approach. For the energy range below 10 eV our results for nitrogen are in good agreements with the available experimental data and the recent calculations within hyperspherical elliptic coordinates. However, discrepancies were found in the case of oxygen, where a p -wave shape resonance is …
Distorted Wave Born And Three-Body Distorted Wave Born Approximation Calculations Of The Fully Differential Cross Section For Electron-Impact Ionization Of Nitrogen Molecules, Junfang Gao, Don H. Madison, Jerry Peacher
Distorted Wave Born And Three-Body Distorted Wave Born Approximation Calculations Of The Fully Differential Cross Section For Electron-Impact Ionization Of Nitrogen Molecules, Junfang Gao, Don H. Madison, Jerry Peacher
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Currently there are no reliable theoretical approaches for calculating fully differential cross sections (FDCSs) for low-energy electron-impact ionization of large molecules. We have recently proposed the orientation-averaged molecular orbital (OAMO) for calculating cross sections averaged over molecular orientations. In this paper, we use the OAMO to calculate distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) and molecular three-body distorted wave (M3DW) Born approximation FDCS for electron-impact ionization of the nitrogen molecule. Both coplanar symmetric and asymmetric FDCSs are investigated in the energy range of 35.6-400 eV. by comparing with the experimental data, we found that the M3DW is reasonably accurate in this energy …
An Elementary Method For Calculating Orientation-Averaged Fully Differential Electron-Impact Ionization Cross Sections For Molecules, Junfang Gao, Jerry Peacher, Don H. Madison
An Elementary Method For Calculating Orientation-Averaged Fully Differential Electron-Impact Ionization Cross Sections For Molecules, Junfang Gao, Jerry Peacher, Don H. Madison
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Currently there are no reliable theoretical approaches for calculating fully differential cross sections (FDCS) for low-energy electron-impact ionization of large molecules. We have recently introduced the distorted-wave impulse approximation as a first step in developing improved theoretical approaches. One significant obstacle to evaluating improved theoretical approaches which require significant computer resources lies in the fact that the existing experimental data require taking averages over all molecular orientations. To circumvent this problem, it has been proposed to approximate the orientation-average by using an orientation-averaged molecular orbital in the calculation of the FDCS. The theoretical justification and expected range of validity for …