Diego F. Pastega

Low-energy positron scattering by pyrimidine

This work reports elastic integral and differential cross sections for positron collisions with pyrimidine, for energies up to 20 eV. The cross sections were computed with the Schwinger multichannel method in the static plus polarization approximation. We also employed the Born closure procedure to account for the long range potential due to the permanent dipole moment of the molecule. Our results are compared with the experimental total cross section of Zecca et al. [J. Phys. B 43, 215204 (2010)], the experimental grand-total, quasi-elastic integral and differential cross section of Palihawadana et al. [Phys. Rev. A 88, 12717 (2013)]. We also compare our results with theoretical integral and differential cross sections obtained by Sanz et al. [Phys. Rev. A 88, 62704 (2013)] with the R-matrix and the independent atom model with screening-corrected additivity rule methods, and with the results computed by Franz and Gianturco [Phys. Rev. A 88, 042711 (2013)] using model correlation-polarization potentials. The agreement between the theory and the experiment is encouraging.

Low-energy electron scattering by carbon tetrachloride

In this work we report calculated integral and differential elastic cross sections for the scattering of low-energy electrons by CCl4. We employ the Schwinger multichannel method with pseudopotentials to compute the cross sections in the static-exchange and static-exchange plus polarization approximations for energies up to 15 eV. We report two shape resonances located at 0.75 eV and 8 eV belonging to the T 2 and E symmetries of the T d group respectively. We also look at the s-wave contribution to the integral cross section and find no evidence of the presence of a Ramsauer–Townsend minimum. We compare our calculated cross sections with available experimental and theoretical results and find that in general the agreement is good.

Elastic Differential Cross Sections for Electron Scattering with Dichloromethane

In the present study joint experimental and theoretical elastic differential cross sections for electron scattering from dichloromethane in the incident electron energy region 7 to 50eV are discussed.