Scattering study of electron impact with Halomethane (CH3X, X = F, Cl, Br, I).

In this paper, we mainly present the electron impact molecular scattering cross sections of Halomethane molecules (CH3X; X = F, Cl, Br, I). Halomethanes are tetrahedral molecules and are derivatives of methane (CH4) with one of the hydrogen atom being replaced by one of the halogen atoms i.e. F, Cl, Br, or I. In this article we only report total scattering cross-sections (TCS) of the Halomethane molecules. In order to compute TCS, we have employed spherical complex optical potential (SCOP) method (10 eV to 5000 eV). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]