  In this paper we calculate the elastic scattering cross sections of slow
electron by carbon nanotubes. The corresponding electron-nanotube interaction
is substituted by a zero-thickness cylindrical potential that neglects the
atomic structure of real nanotubes, thus limiting the range of applicability of
our approach to sufficiently low incoming electron energies. The strength of
the potential is chosen the same that was used in describing scattering of
electrons by fullerene C60. We present results for total and partial electron
scattering cross sections as well as respective angular distributions, all with
account of five lowest angular momenta contributions. In the calculations we
assumed that the incoming electron moves perpendicular to the nanotube axis,
since along the axis the incoming electron moves freely.
