Joint theoretical and experimental study on elastic electron scattering from bismuth

9 pags., 4 figs., 1 tab.We report on experimental elastic differential and integral cross sections for electron scattering from bismuth. The energy range of those measurements is 10-100 eV, while the scattered electron angular range in the differential cross section data is 10°-150°. We also supplement our experimental results with theoretical data from our optical potential approach, in this case applying two different sets of scattering potentials to the problem. Good overall qualitative accord is typically observed between our measured and calculated results, particularly when allowance is made for the dimer contribution in the experimental atomic beam.This work was financially supported, in part, by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Project No. FIS2016-80440), CSIC (Project No. LINKA20085), the Australian Research Council (Projects No. DP160102787 and No. DP180101655), the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Project No. OI171020) of the Republic of Serbia, and the Ministry of Scientific and Technological Development, Higher Education and Information Society (Project No. 19/6-020/961-67/18) of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia, and Herzegovina