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Cold Collisions of Electrons with Molecules

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 Results are presented of high-resolution scattering experiments involving electron collisions with CO2 and CS2, between a few meV and 200 meV impact energy. Virtual state scattering is shown to dominate the low-energy behaviour for both species. The most striking features of the scattering spectrum for CS2 are, however, giant resonances with cross sections greater by more than an order of magnitude than those generally encountered in low-energy scattering. A strong feature centred at 15 meV is attributed to the involvement of and is interpreted to be a consequence of the virtual state effect.

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  1.  Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, , , , , , DK

    D. Field & N. C. Jones

  2.  Laboratoire Collisions Agrégats Réactivité CNRS-UMR5589, Université Paul Sabatier, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex, France, , , , , , FR

    J.-P. Ziesel

  3.  Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen’s University, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom, , , , , , GB

    T. A. Field

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Received October 31, 2001; accepted for publication November 21, 2001

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Field, D., Jones, N., Ziesel, JP. et al. Cold Collisions of Electrons with Molecules. Few-Body Systems 31, 191–197 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s006010200020

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