Differential cross sections for elastic electron scattering by formamide (NH 2 CHO) were measured in the 30-800 eV and 10°-120°ranges. The angular distribution of scattered electrons was obtained using a crossed electron beam-molecular beam geometry. The relative flow technique was applied to normalize our data. Integral and momentum-transfer cross sections were derived from the measured differential cross sections. Theoretical results in the framework of the independent-atom model at the static-exchange-polarization plus absorption level of approximation are also given. The present measured and calculated results are compared with those available in the literature showing a generally good agreement.

We report a joint theoretical–experimental investigation on elastic electron scattering by chlorobenzene in the low- and intermediate-energy ranges as a part of a collaborative project established between the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and the California State University (CSUF). More specifically, experimental elastic differential cross sections (DCS), in the incident electron energy range of 1.0 to 800 eV and scattering angle range of 10° to 130°, were measured using the crossed-beam relative-flow technique. Integral and momentum-transfer cross sections were determined from the numerical integration over the experimental DCS. Theoretically, elastic differential, integral, and momentum-transfer cross sections were calculated using a combination of a molecular complex optical potential model with the Padé approximant technique for impact energies ranging from 1.0 to 150 eV. Further calculations of DCS were performed at an energy range of 20 to 500 eV using the independent-atom model. Our results, which significantly extend available electron scattering cross sections for this target, are compared to existing theoretical and experimental data in the literature.

An experimental investigation of elastic electron scattering by trimethyl phosphate (C3H9PO4) is presented. Differential cross sections were measured in the 5–800 eV and 10°–130° and from these data momentum-transfer cross sections were derived. Calculations of the scattering cross sections in the intermediate energy range were performed within the independent atom model framework at static-exchange-polarization plus absorption level of approximation. The comparison between our measured and calculated results presents, in general, a good agreement.

We report a joint theoretical and experimental investigation on low-energy electron scattering by dimethyl and diethyl ethers. The experimental elastic differential cross sections were measured at impact energies from 1 eV up to 30 eV and scattering angle range of 10° to 130°. Theoretical elastic differential, integral and momentum-transfer cross sections are calculated at impact energies up to 30 eV, employing the Schwinger multichannel method implemented with norm-conserving pseudopotentials, in the static-exchange and static-exchange plus polarization approximations. Our experimental and theoretical results for dimethyl and diethyl ether are compared with previous data for their isomers, ethanol and butanol, respectively. These comparisons reveal that although the cross sections for the ether and its respective alcohol present similar magnitudes, the angular behavior of their differential cross sections shows some significant differences. From the analysis of the integral cross sections for electron scattering by dimethyl and diethyl ether, we observe a broad structure, at around 9.5 eV, which we assign as the overlap of several resonant structures.

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