Abstract
In a recent paper, Reisfeld and Asaf [Phys. Rev. A 49, 348 (1994)] suggested a simple model explaining an observed correlation between the electron scattering lengths and electric polarizabilities of rare-gas atoms. They proposed an electron-target interaction potential consisting of a short-range hard-core repulsive part plus a long-range dipole polarization potential, and used the Born approximation to evaluate the scattering length. We show that for this model the scattering length may be evaluated analytically and that theoretical predictions based on an exact expression disagree with experimental data.
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