Comparisons of Quantemol and Morgan LXCat cross section sets for electron-neutral scattering and rate-coefficients: Helium and water

Abstract

The present work compares cross section sets for electron scattering from ground state helium and ground state water molecule, which are available at LXCat Morgan database and the new Quantemol-DB. These cross section sets are used as an input for numerical solving of Boltzmann equation by using electron Boltzmann solver BOLSIG+, in order to obtain transport coefficients, electron energy distribution function and rate coefficients for electron impact scattering processes. The calculated quantities are compared to examine the quality and completeness of the cross section sets provided by Quantemol database for modeling low-temperature plasmas and interpretation of experimental results.