SLOW ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH CADMIUM ATOMS AND IONS I.V.Chernyshova, J.E.Kontros, O.B.Shpenik Institute of Electron Physics, 294016 Uzhgorod, Ukraine Using the electron backscattering spectrometer the energy dependences of elastic 180o scattering of low-energy electrons by cadmium atoms and ions were measured in the 0.5-7 eV energy range.