Elastic scattering of electrons by argon atoms

The partial wave method with a central potential has been applied to investigate the elastic scattering of electrons by the argon atoms in the intermediate energy range (100 eV − 1 keV). The central potential includes the effects of the static field, exchange and polarization. The results are in good accord with recent experimental data. A brief account of this investigation was presented at the X Int. Conf. on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions held at Paris in July 1977.