K. Bartschat et al., R-MATRIX WITH PSEUDO-STATES CALCULATION FOR ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH NEUTRAL BERYLLIUM, Journal of physics. B, Atomic molecular and optical physics, 30(24), 1997, pp. 5915-5924
We have extended and further improved our previous R-matrix with pseud
o-states (RMPS) calculation for electron collisions with beryllium (19
96 J. Phys. B: At. Mel. Opt. Phys. L769-72). Results for transitions f
rom the (2s(2))S-1 ground state to the lowest 11 target states with pr
incipal quantum number n = 2, 3 are presented for incident energies fr
om threshold to 100 eV. In the crucial 'intermediate energy range' of
10-100 eV, our results are in good agreement with those obtained in th
e convergent close-coupling (CCC) calculation of Fursa and Bray, where
as significant discrepancies are found with predictions from simpler m
odels. Consequently, a combination of RMPS and CCC predictions in this
region, supplemented by our RMPS results in the low-energy resonance
regime and further CCC results above 100 eV incident energy are believ
ed to represent the most accurate currently available data for this co
llision problem.