The following abbreviations are used for the theoretical methods used in calculating collisional cross sections. If you are a data provider and your computational method is not listed here, please contact fusion-data@iaea.org.
| AOCC | Atomic‐orbital close‐coupling |
| BPRM | Breit-Pauli R-Matrix |
| BSR | B-spline R-matrix |
| CC | Close-coupling |
| CCC | Convergent close-coupling |
| CM | Classical Mechanics |
| CMD | Classical molecular dynamics |
| CTMC | Classical trajectory Monte Carlo |
| DARC | Dirac atomic R-matrix code |
| DFT | Density functional theory |
| DW | Distorted-wave |
| GM | Gryzinski method |
| GTDSE | Time-dependent Schrödinger equation with the GridTDSE package |
| H-CTMC | Hydrogenic-classical trajectory Monte Carlo |
| HSCC | Hyper spherical close-coupling |
| LCP | Local complex potential |
| MCCC | Molecular convergent close-coupling |
| M-CTMC | Microcanonical-classical trajectory Monte Carlo |
| MQDT | Multichannel quantum defect theory |
| QCMD | Quantum-classical molecular dynamics |
| QCTMC | Quasi-classical trajectory Monte Carlo |
| QMOCC | Quantum-mechanical molecular orbital close-coupling |
| RCCC | Relativistic Convergent close-coupling |
| RDW | Relativistic distorted-wave |
| RM | R-matrix |
| RMPS | R-matrix with pseudo-states |
| SC | Semi-classical |
| SC-AOCC | Semi-classical atomic-orbital close-coupling |
| TC-AOCC | Two-center atomic orbital close-coupling |
| TC-BGM | Two-center basis generator method |
| TD | Time-dependent |
| TDCC | Time-dependent close-coupling |
| TDSE | Time-dependent Schrödinger equation |
| TMMM | Threshold modified Mott and Massey |
| WP-CCC | Wave packet convergent close-coupling |