The Livermore electron elastic scattering data base

Electrons elastically scatter off of the atomic nucleus. Because of the large mass difference between an incident electron and a target nucleus, the electron loses negligible kinetic energy per collision but undergoes an angular deflection. In this paper, the Livermore electron elastic scattering data base is described. In the following section, the theory to obtain the cross sections is detailed. The ENDL data format is next discussed, along with the extensions that had to be made to it because of the large forward bias in the differential cross section. Finally, the manipulation to the results to obtain numerical consistency is shown. The analysis has yielded electron elastic scattering data for Z = 1 to 100 with energies from 10 to 100 Gev.