Differential cross sections for electron impact excitation of molecular hydrogen using the momentum-space multichannel optical method

In the present work, the momentum-space multichannel optical method is employed in four-state close-coupling calculations to study the electronic excitation of H2 molecules by electron-impact. Particularly, differential cross sections for the x1∑g＋b3∑u＋,x1∑g＋-a3∑g,andx1∑g-c3Пu transitions are reported. Comparison is made with the availableexperimental and theoretical results.