Semiempirical R-matrix theory of low energy electron-CF3Cl inelastic scattering

Abstract

We apply a semiempirical R-matrix theory to calculations of vibrational excitation and dissociative attachment in the molecule for electron energies below about 3 eV. We employ two sets of model parameters corresponding to two different forms of the potential curve. We find that our present, ab initio calculated anion curve gives vibrational excitation and dissociative attachment cross sections in good agreement with experimental measurements. We also compare the results of our theory with those of a recently published classical theory.