A Zecca

E Trainotti

F Blanco

G García

L Chiari

M J Brunger

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Total cross-sections for positron and electron scattering from α-tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol

In this paper, we report original measurements of total crosssections (TCSs) for positron scattering from an important biomolecule, α-tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA). The energy range of these measurements was 0.15-50.15 eV, whereas the energy resolution was ∼260 meV. In addition, we report theoretical results, calculated within the independent-screened additivity rule (IAM-SCAR) formalism, on the corresponding electron impact total crosssections. In this case, the energy range is 1-10 000 eV. With the advent of new particle track simulation codes, which incorporate accurate atomic and molecular data in order to provide interaction details at the nanoscale, interest in positron and electron TCSs has enjoyed something of a recent renaissance as they specify the mean free path between collisions in such codes. Because the present data are, to the best of our knowledge, the first TCSs to be reported for positron scattering from THFA, they fill an important void in the knowledge available to us from the literature. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.This work was supported under a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Trento and the Flinders University node of the ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies. GG and FB thank the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (project no. FIS2009–10245) and the EU Famework Programme (COST Action MP1002).Peer Reviewe

Total cross-sections for positron and electron scattering from α-tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol

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