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Theoretical study of neutrino scattering off the stable even Mo isotopes at low and intermediate energies

E. YdreforsT.s. KosmasK.g. Balasi

subject

inelastic cross sectionsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsHadronsemi-leptonic electro-weak interactionsneutrino-nucleus reactionsnuclear-data sheetsNuclear physicsdedicated supernova detectionDouble beta decayelastic-scatteringNeutrino Ettore Majorana ObservatoryconversionNuclear ExperimentdetectorsPhysicsMass numberweak-interactionNeutral currentIsotopequasi-particle random-phase approximationspallationSupernovareaction cross-sectionsnetworkHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrinoburst

description

A systematic study of the cross sections of neutral-current neutrino scattering off the stable even Mo isotopes (mass number A = 92, 94, 96, 98, 100), at low and intermediate neutrino energies (E(nu) <= 130 MeV), is presented and discussed. The required wave functions for the initial (ground state) and all accessible final nuclear states are constructed in the context of the quasi-particle random-phase approximation (QRPA) and tested against data on the low-lying energy spectra of the isotopes in question. The individual contributions coming from the polar-vector and axial-vector components of the hadronic current for the coherent and incoherent channels of each isotope are investigated. The studied Mo isotopes are contents of the detector of the MOON experiment operating at Japan with a hybrid aim to search for neutrinoless double beta decay events and to detect low- and intermediate-energy astrophysical neutrinos (solar, supernova, geo-neutrinos), and also of the NEMO neutrinoless double beta decay detector in Modane at France. For such purposes our cross section calculations are of significant importance. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Nuclear Physics A

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.08.003