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Computational Methods for Low-Energy Electron-Molecule Collisions

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Electron-Molecule Collisions

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In the last few years considerable progress has been made in ab initio calculations of low-energy electron-molecule collision cross sections. This is partly due to the increasing need for these cross sections in many applications, partly due to the development of new methods and associated computer codes, and finally but not least due to the increasing availability of powerful computer facilities which have enabled the relevant equations to be solved accurately. Thus, in the last few years, accurate static exchange calculations have been carried out for a variety of diatomic molecules, and the first results for electronic excitation based on the close-coupling expansion have been reported.

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