ANISOTROPIC LOW-ENERGY ELECTRON COLLISION CROSS-SECTIONS FOR METHANE DERIVED FROM TRANSPORT-COEFFICIENTS

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SCHMIDT, B
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[1] Physikalisches Institut der Universität, Heidelberg, 6900
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10.1088/0953-4075/24/22/018
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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Based on a comprehensive set of transport parameters of electrons in methane derived from single electron spectra in the range of field 0.01-15 Td we determined a set of elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections up to 3 eV. The necessity to include anisotropic elastic scattering in a Boltzmann analysis of methane is demonstrated. In addition the drift velocity in a mixture of methane with helium was used to enhance the reliability of the derived cross sections. The low energy part of the cross sections for elastic scattering is subject to a MERT analysis and is compared with total cross section data from single scattering experiments.
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