Angular distribution of electrons scattered by He+

Abstract
Theoretical results are given for the angular distribution of low-energy electrons scattered in collisions with He+ in which the 1s state is excited to the 2s state. The distribution was calculated using T matrices obtained from R-matrix calculations with three states 1s, 2s, 2p and also with six states 1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 3d. In both approximations for low electron energies the differential cross section is largest for backward scattering with a maximum at approximately 90 degrees . This disagrees with early calculations of the differential cross section obtained using the distorted-wave approximation.

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