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

We apply a semiempirical R-matrix theory to calculations of vibrational exc itation and dissociative attachment in the CF3Cl molecule for electron ener gies below about 3 eV. We employ two sets of model parameters corresponding to two different forms of the CF3Cl- potential curve. We find that our pre sent, ab initio calculated anion curve gives vibrational excitation and dis sociative attachment cross sections in good agreement with experimental mea surements. We also compare the results of our theory with those of a recent ly published classical theory.