TOTAL CROSS-SECTIONS FOR ELECTRON-SCATTERING BY NE, AR, KR AND XE

A set of total cross sections for scattering of electrons by Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe has been evaluated over the energy range of about 20 to 3000 eV by means of the analysis of experiments and theories on total cross sections for elastic scattering, ionisation and excitation, and on differential cross sections for elastic and inelastic scattering. The total cross sections for scattering of electrons are evaluated by adding those for ionisation, excitation and elastic scattering and they are accurate to about 5-10%. They appear to be in very good agreement with the recent experimental results on total electron scattering of Wagenaar et al. (1978).