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You-Yan Wang1, Jian-Min Sun, Lin-Fan Zhu
1Department of Modern Physics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Abstract:
The generalized oscillator strengths, differential cross sections, as well as the integral cross sections for electron impact excitation of the B (1)Delta, C (1)Pi, and D (1)Sigma(+) states of N(2)O have been determined at an incident electron energy of 2500 eV. A generalized oscillator strength analysis reveals that the B (1)Delta<--X (1)Sigma(+) transition is dominated by the quadrupolar component. From the comparison to the previous experimental results, it is found that the first Born approximation is not satisfied for the C (1)Pi excitation while it is valid for the D (1)Sigma(+) excitation at an incident electron energy of 200 eV. The BE-scaled integral cross section for the B (1)Delta excitation from its threshold to 5000 eV was calculated based on its generalized oscillator strength, and the present integral cross sections for the excitation of the C (1)Pi and D (1)Sigma(+) states are in good agreement with the calculations using the BEf-scaling approach.
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