Abstract

Recent papers on electron-N/sub 2/ scattering by Rumble, Stevens, and Truhlar (J. Phys. B 17, 3151 (1984)) and Weatherford, Brown, and Temkin (Phys. Rev. A 35, 4561 (1987)) have suggested that Hartree-Fock (HF) wave functions may not be accurate for calculating potentials for use in studying electron-molecule collisions. A comparison of results for electron-H/sub 2/ scattering using both correlated and HF wave functions is presented. It is found that for both elastic and inelastic collisions and for all energies considered (up to 10 eV) the HF wave functions yield results in excellent agreement with those obtained from the more accurate wave functions.

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