Validation of new electron and positron data libraries

Recently, the original Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Evaluated Electron Data Library [S.T. Perkins, D.E. Cullen, S.M. Seltzer, LLNL, CA, UCRL-50400, 31 (1991)] was extended down from 10 eV to 1 eV. Efforts have also been made to generate a similarly formatted data library for positrons - EPODL. These libraries now include data in the energy range from 1 eV to 100 GeV for electron and positron interactions with neutral atoms of the elements H through Fm. Validation of the new data has been carried out by comparison with experimental results for single ionization and differential elastic scattering cross-sections. The calculated cross-section data are generally found to be in good agreement with reported measurements