Elastic and electronically inelastic electron collisions by the thiophene molecule

Abstract

Differential and integral cross sections for elastic and electronically inelastic scattering of electrons by the thiophene molecule were determined by means of the Schwinger multichannel method within the static-exchange plus polarization approximation in the energy range from 3.41 to 50 eV. We investigated the influence of multichannel coupling effects by calculating the cross sections according to different schemes of channel coupling that range from 1 to 61 open channels along with polarization effects, depending on the energy considered. The comparison of these results shows that the inclusion of more channels in the scattering calculations leads to a significant decrease in the magnitude of the cross sections. Present results corresponding to our best level of channel coupling at a given energy, both for elastic and electronically inelastic electron scattering by thiophene, display an overall good agreement with the data available in the literature.