Elastic and related transport cross sections for atomic hydrogen - atomic hydrogen collisions


The data made available here updates and extends previous work providing elastic and related transport cross sections for modeling the passage of atomic hydrogen through atomic hydrogen gas.

Please cite the following two papers when using this data:

"Elastic scattering and charge transfer in slow collisions: isotopes of H and H+ colliding with isotopes of H and with He," P.S. Krstic and D.R. Schultz, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 32, 3485 (1999) DOI - presents the fundamental theoretical and computational approaches used and references to the predecesor data sets and historical background

"Ionization, negative ion formation, elastic scattering, and spin exchange in H + H collisions at low- to intermediate-energies," S.Yu. Ovchinnikov, Y. Kamyshkov, T. Zaman, and D.R. Schultz, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 085204 (2017) DOI - description of the present data sets for elastic scattering and spin exchange, and of the updates and extensions of the previous data


Center of mass energy range Total cross section file Differential cross section file
10-4 - 10-3 eV tcshh-decade1 dcshh-decade1
10-3 - 10-2 eV tcshh-decade2 dcshh-decade2
10-2 - 10-1 eV tcshh-decade3 dcshh-decade3
10-1 - 100 eV tcshh-decade4 dcshh-decade4
100 - 101 eV tcshh-decade5 dcshh-decade5
101 - 102 eV tcshh-decade6 dcshh-decade6
102 - 103 eV tcshh-decade7 dcshh-decade7
103 - 104 eV tcshh-decade8 dcshh-decade8