Applications of the Schwinger Multichannel Method with pseudopotentials toelectron scattering from polyatomic molecules II. Rotational excitation cross sections

This paper reports results for rotational excitation of H2O and H2S molecul es by electron impact. It is also a databasis including tables of previousl y published rotationally resolved cross sections for CH4, SiH4, GeH4, SnH4, PbH4, NH3, PH3, AsH3, SbH3, CF4, CCl4, SiCl4 SiBr4, and SiI4. Our scatteri ng amplitudes were calculated using the Schwinger multichannel method with norm-conserving pseudopotentials and the rotational resolved cross sections were obtained with the help of the adiabatic nuclei rotation approximation . Our results are in good agreement with other theoretical data and experim ental results when available. All tables are available in the electronic version of the paper only [on th e world wide web at http://www.sbf.if.usp.br/bjp/Vol31/Num1/].