We present elastic cross sections obtained from ab initio calculations for
low-energy electron scattering by benzene, C6H6. The calculations employed
the Schwinger multichannel method as implemented for parallel computers wit
hin both the static-exchange and static-exchange-polarization approximation
s. We compare our results with other theoretical calculations and with avai
lable experimental data. In general, agreement is good. (C) 2000 American I
nstitute of Physics. [S0021-9606(00)01120-X].