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The energy transfer mechanisms which act between molecular internal degrees of freedom during the interaction with impinging electrons, at thermal or near-thermal energies, play a very important role in many practical problems and in several nonequilibrium situations in ionized media. Thus, the excitation of molecular rotations is an essential pathway of energy when determining the electron velocity distribution in gaseous discharges, in electron-drift experiments and in the ionospheres of several planets. In addition, vibrational excitations by the same process constitute an important ingredient for developping quantitative models for electron-impact spectroscopy and for relaxation processes in discharges and plasmas1.
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Gianturco, F.A., Lucchese, R.R., Sanna, N., Talamo, A. (1994). A Generalized Single Centre Approach for Treating Electron Scattering from Polyatomic Molecules. In: Ehrhardt, H., Morgan, L.A. (eds) Electron Collisions with Molecules, Clusters, and Surfaces. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1489-7_6
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