Experimental and theoretical cross sections for elastic electron scattering from zinc

Abstract

We report on experimental elastic differential and integral cross sections for electron scattering from zinc. The energy range of these measurements is 10--100 eV, while the scattered electron angular range in the differential cross-section data is ${10}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}\text{--}{150}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$. We also supplement our measured data with applications of our optical potential and relativistic optical potential approaches to this problem. Where possible, the present results are compared against those from earlier B-spline R-matrix [O. Zatsarinny and K. Bartschat, Phys. Rev. A 71, 022716 (2005)] and convergent close coupling [D. V. Fursa, I. Bray, R. Panajotovi\ifmmode \acute{c}\else \'{c}\fi{}, D. \ifmmode \check{S}\else \v{S}\fi{}evi\ifmmode \acute{c}\else \'{c}\fi{}, V. Pej\ifmmode \check{c}\else \v{c}\fi{}ev, D. M. Filipovi\ifmmode \acute{c}\else \'{c}\fi{}, and B. P. Marinkovi\ifmmode \acute{c}\else \'{c}\fi{}, Phys. Rev. A 72, 012706 (2005)] computations. Good overall qualitative accord is typically observed.