CCC calculated differential cross sections of electron-H$_2$ scattering

Recently we applied the molecular convergent close-coupling (CCC) method to electron scattering from molecular hydrogen H$_2$ [1]. Convergence of the major differential cross sections has been explicitly demonstrated in the fixed-nuclei approximation. A large close-coupling expansion that coupled highly excited states and ionization channels proved to be important to obtain convergent results. Here we present benchmark elastic and electronic excitation differential cross sections for $b^3 \Sigma^+_u$, $a^{3} \Sigma^{+}_g$, $c^{3} \Pi_u$, $B^{1}\Sigma^{+}_u$, $EF^{1}\Sigma_g^{+}$, $C^{1}\Pi_u$, and $e^{3}\Sigma^{+}_u$ states and compare with available experiment and previous calculations. \newline [1] M. C. Zammit et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. accepted (2016)