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The most intense ionization channel is assigned to the parent ion (C6H6+) formation. The DDCS values are presented for three different transferred energies, namely 30, 40 and 50 eV. The present TDCS are given for two fixed values of the ejected electron energy (E2), at 5 and 10 eV, and an electron scattering angle (\u03b81) of 10\u00b0. Different features related to the molecular orbitals of benzene from where the electron is extracted are observed. 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