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2014 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 488 042011

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XXVIII International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC 2013) IOP Publishing
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 488 (2014) 042011 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/488/4/042011

Universal functional formula of atomic elastic cross sections.

The case of the hydrogen target.
K. Tőkési∗ 1 , P. Salamon∗ , D. Tskhakaya† , D. Coster§

∗
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary
†
Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
§
Max-Planck-Institut fr Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany

Synopsis We develop and present the universal functional formula, depending on the incident energy and the
scattering angle, of the atomic angular differential elastic cross sections for hydrogen target based on the method
of least squares. The results of the universal fitting function are in excellent agreement with the results calculated
using the partial expansion method.

For the accurate simulation of the processes each block has the same xk (k = 1, . . . , n) ba-
in the active fusion reactor - within the frame- sis points. Our sample is made up m · n triples.
work of the international nuclear fusion and engi- We would like to fit our sample with a two vari-
neering project, ITER (International Thermonu- ables continuous ỹ = F (x, z̃) function using the
clear Experimental Reactor) - numerous atomic, method of least squares. For that we require
molecular, nuclear and surface related data are that ỹi,k ≈ F (xk , z̃i ) for all i = 1, . . . , m and
required. One of the convenient ways of repre- k = 1, . . . , n. In our case z̃i ∈ [100 , 105 ], i =
sentation of these data is analytical fit functions, 1, . . . , m and xk ∈ [0o , 180o ], k = 1, . . . , n and
which can be easily applied in various fields of m = 201, n = 251. According to our fitting pro-
sciences. cedure the best fit function y = F (x, z) is given
The aim of the present work was to develop a as: p
universal functional formula of elastic cross sec-
F (x, z) = Cj (z)xj , (1)
tions for the case of hydrogen target. We consider j=0
the angular differential electron elastic cross sec-
tions for a wide range of incident electron energy where
and in the entire angular range. The differential q

cross-sections were calculated using the partial Cj (z) = dl,j z l (j = 0, . . . , p). (2)
expansion method [1]. l=0

Fig. 1 shows the elastic cross sections at 100 eV, 1

1e-16
keV and 10 keV. The fitted curves are in excellent
agreement with the calculated ones within less
1e-18 than 1% accuracy in the energy range between
1 eV and 100 keV. Our analytical formula may
σ (cm )

show the main virtues in various Monte Carlo

2

1e-20
simulations reducing drastically the computation
time, when it requires to calculate the elastic
1e-22 cross sections many times.
Acknowledgements
1e-24
This work, supported by the European Com-
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 munities under the contract of Association be-
Scattering angle (Deg.)
tween EURATOM-HAS, was carried out within
Figure 1. Elastic scattering cross section as a func-
the framework of the Task Force on Integrated
tion of the scattering angle. The symbols repre- Tokamak Modelling of the European Fusion De-
sent the calculations according to Ref. [1]. Circles: velopment Agreement. The work was also sup-
E=100 eV, squares: E=10 keV, triangles: E=10 ported by the Hungarian Scientific Research
keV. The solid lines: cross sections according to Fund OTKA No. NN103279.
Eq. (1).
References
We have the system of three column block basic
points which comes from cross section calcula- [1] F. Salvat, R. Mayol, 1993 Comput. Phys. Com-
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E-mail: tokesi.karoly@atomki.mta.hu

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