Optical Potential Calculations of Elastic Collision for Electron Scattering by H2

Differential cross sections for the elastic scattering of the electrons by H2 at 100 and 150 e V have been calculatedand compared with experiments. We use the momentum space method in which the electron-molecule system hasa single centre and the effect of higher reaction channels on electron-molecule elastic scattering is approximatedby an ab initio equivalent-local potential. It is added to the exact static-exchange potential for e-H2 scattering.