Electron collisions with polyatomic molecules using the R-matrix method

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1755, 1999, Pages 1161-1173

  Tennyson, Jonathan ^a   Morgan, Lesley A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Elastic scattering; Nitrous oxide; Ozone; Resonances; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346246652     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0369     Document Type: Article

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