The persistent interest in the investigation of the electron atom/molecule collisions is driven by the increase in importance of the electron assisted processes in the development of modern technologies. Apart from the importance of the scattering data in the various applied fields they are also of fundamental importance as scattering is one of the most basic processes to study the structure and properties of the target. Therefore, electron atom/molecule collisions have been investigated both by theoretical and by experimental atomic and molecular physics communities since the early years of...

Scattering of electrons is a fundamental phenomenon occurring either as a primary or secondary process whenever ionizing radiation interacts with matter. Energy deposition models, to study the interaction of radiation with matter and radiation damage, require scattering cross section data for all possible processes. Knowledge of electron scattering cross sections is therefore the most important and indispensable tool for the quantitative analysis of radiation impact phenomena. Electron impact ionization cross sections find practical applications in many branches of science viz. fusion edge...