Elastic electron collisions with trimethyl phosphate

Abstract

An experimental investigation of elastic electron scattering by trimethyl phosphate (C3H9PO4) is presented. Differential cross sections were measured in the 5–800 eV and 10°–130° and from these data momentum-transfer cross sections were derived. Calculations of the scattering cross sections in the intermediate energy range were performed within the independent atom model framework at static-exchange-polarization plus absorption level of approximation. The comparison between our measured and calculated results presents, in general, a good agreement.