Under this tittle we (Mi-Young Song et al.) published a paper being a short review on peculiar cross sections for electron scattering on the molecular nitrogen (EPJD 2023)

These particular features are:

1. Low-energy (elastic) cross section going virtually to zero-value in the limit of zero energy

2. Huge (1/3 of the total) cross section in the 2.3 eV resonance region.

3. A high (15.3 eV) energy of the dissociation into neutrals, and surprisingly high cross section for this process.

4. A high share of the excited (and metastable) states in the parent (i.e. N₂⁺) ionization channel

5. Long lifetimes of metastable electronic states

This paper, to some extent, is a short-cut to our more comprehensive review published in JCPRD.  

Cross Sections for Electron Collisions with N₂, ${\text{N}}_2^{*}$⁠, and ${\text{N}}_2^{+}$ 

Mi-Young Song 

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Hyuck Cho;

 

Grzegorz P. Karwasz 

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Viatcheslav Kokoouline 

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Jonathan Tennyson