Close-coupling and distorted-wave calculations for electron-impact excitation of the (5p56p) states of xenon -: art. no. 062706

We report on a series of calculations for electron-impact excitation of the (5p(5)6p) states in xenon from the ground state (5p(6))S-1(0). As in previous calculations for other noble-gas targets, we find strong evidence of channel coupling for all incident energies considered (between threshold and 200 eV). Although qualitative agreement with the experimental results of Fons and Lin [Phys. Rev. A 58, 4603 (1998)] is achieved, severe quantitative discrepancies of sometimes more than a factor of 2 remain.