COLLISION CROSS-SECTIONS FOR SCATTERING OF ELECTRONS FROM NO MOLECULE

Electron-NO scattering is investigated in the energy range 2-1000eV by using a parameter-free spherical complex optical potential (SCOP) app roach in the fixed nuclei approximation. The real part of the optical potential consists of three potentials namely, the static, the exchang e and the polarization. For the imaginary part of the SCOP, we employ a semi-empirical model absorption potential. The molecular charge dens ity function is calculated from a single-configuration molecular orbit al based on Slater type orbitals. The various potential terms are then determined from these charge density functions. Calculations of the e lastic (with and without absorption effects), total absorption, moment um transfer and differential cross-sections are obtained and compared with the available theoretical results and experimental measurements.