The 2024 status report on the LXCat project

LXCat (www.lxcat.net) is an open-access website for the curation of data needed for modeling the electron and ion components of Low Temperature Plasmas (LTPs) [1]. Since its inception in 2010, more than 60 people from around the world have contributed to LXCat, either by uploading data into individual databases which are maintained by the contributors or by participating in different aspects of the project. This presentation will focus on the data themselves, while another presentation at the conference will describe the new infrastructure being developed for LXCat. The data types currently available on LXCat include cross sections for electron- and ion-neutral collisions, transport and rate coefficients, oscillator strengths, and ion-neutral interaction potentials. Certain sets of electron-neutral cross sections are "complete" in the sense that all the important electron energy and momentum loss processes are represented, and thus these sets are suitable for use as input to electron Boltzmann equation solvers or Monte Carlo simulations. In many cases, data from different contributors for the same processes are available on LXCat, and users must decide for themselves which are most suitable for their particular needs. The objectives of this presentation are to update the LTP community on recent additions to the databases, to solicit feedback from the user community regarding emerging data needs, and to communicate with potential new contributors of data.