Author:
Vukalovic J,Maljkovic J B,Tökési K,Predojevic B,Marinkovic B P
Abstract
Abstract
We report on a combined experimental and theoretical study of elastic differential cross section DCS (E, θ) from methane molecule in the intermediate energy range (50-300eV), with experimental results limited to an angle interval of 25 to 125 degrees. Theoretical results are acquired using two approximations: a simple sum of individual atomic cross sections and the other with molecular effect taken into the account. The experimental setup based on a crossed beam technique comprising of an electron gun, a single capillary gas needle, and a detection system with a channeltron was used to measure differential cross sections. The absolute scale for the cross sections is obtained by a relative-flow method using argon gas as a reference. The dependence of DCS on the energy of incident electrons has been considered in detail. The results are analysed and compared with available theoretical and experimental data.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy