Abstract
At medium and high collision energies travelling orbitals must be employed in charge-transfer calculations. This results in two-centre matrix elements of the form of a Fourier transform. Similar Fourier transform matrix elements arise in the Bethe theory of the scattering of a structureless charged particle by a diatomic molecule as well as in the computation of the coherent and incoherent intensity for X-rays scattered by molecules. No simple general expression exists for Slater-type orbitals (STO). The author derives such a general expression which contains only small sums and a single numerical integral over an integrand which contains a spherical Bessel function.

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