Semiempirical R-matrix theory of low energy electron–CF₃Cl inelastic scattering

Authors

R. S. Wilde, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Gordon A. Gallup, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Ilya I. Fabrikant, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

5-1-1999

Comments

Published in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 32 (1999), pp. 663–673. Copyright © 1999 Institute of Physics/IOP Publishing Ltd. Used by permission. http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/JPhysB

Abstract

We apply a semiempirical R-matrix theory to calculations of vibrational excitation and dissociative attachment in the CF₃Cl molecule for electron energies below about 3 eV. We employ two sets of model parameters corresponding to two different forms of the CF₃Cl⁻ potential curve. We find that our present, ab initio calculated anion curve gives vibrational excitation and dissociative attachment cross sections in good agreement with experimental measurements. We also compare the results of our theory with those of a recently published classical theory.