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Rigorous negative-ion binding energies in low-energy electron elastic collisions with heavy multi-electron atoms and fullerene molecules: validation of electron affinities
Dramatically sharp resonances manifesting stable negative-ion formation
characterize Regge pole-calculated low-energy electron elastic total cross
sections (TCSs) of heavy multi-electron systems. The novelty of the Regge pole
analysis is in the extraction of rigorous and unambiguous negative-ion binding
energies (BEs), corresponding to the measured electron affinities (EAs) of the
investigated multi-electron systems. The measured EAs have engendered the
crucial question: is the EA of multi-electron atoms and fullerene molecules
identified with the BE of the attached electron in the ground, metastable or
excited state of the formed negative-ion during collision? Inconsistencies in
the meaning of the measured EAs are elucidated.Comment: 16 pages and 5 Figures. Submitted to Atoms for publication. arXiv
admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2207.0826