Polarization of molecular target in electron scattering

Author(s)

Adriana do Rocio Lopes

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin
• Defense date: 2007-05-15

Examining board members

Marco Aurélio Pinheiro Lima; Luiz Marco Brescansin; Fernando Jorge da Paixão; Luiz Eugenio Machado; Antonio Roque da Silva

• Advisor: Marcio Henrique Franco Bettega; Marco Aurélio Pinheiro Lima

Abstract

The aim of this work is the inclusion of polarization effects in the calculations of scattering cross section by using model potentials. The implementation was made in the Schwinger multichannel method with pseudopotentials, using a description of polarization potential with gaussians functions. With this potential we entend to reduce the computational cost present in the inclusion of polarization effects through ab-initio calculation. We use three potentials that can be found in the literature. The first potential relates the short range effect (correlation) derivated from a free electron gas model, with the long range effect (polarization). The second potential has the simplest form, for radius close to zero the potential tends to a constant, and for large r it decays like a polarization potential. The third potential has a exponential factor that is zero in the origin and it decays like a polarization potential for large r. We present a polarization model described by a displacement of a eletric charge density with a ab-initio calculated parameter. Using the third model potential we calculated the integral, momentum transfer and diferential cross section for CH4, SiH4, GeH4, PbH4, SnH4, CF4and Si F4molecules. Our results had been compared with experimental data and we have good agreement (AU)