Neutrino Capture on $^{13}$C

TL;DR

This paper calculates neutrino interaction cross sections with carbon-13, providing data and fits useful for neutrino detection experiments and discussing their implications for scintillator-based detectors.

Contribution

It offers detailed cross section calculations for neutrino interactions with $^{13}$C and provides polynomial fits for quick reaction rate estimates.

Findings

Cross sections for charged-current and neutral-current interactions are provided.

Polynomial fits enable rapid estimation of neutrino reaction rates.

Implications for scintillator-based neutrino experiments are discussed.

Abstract

We present neutrino cross sections on $^{13}$C. The charged-current cross sections leading to various states in the daughter $^{13}N$ and the neutral-current cross sections leading to various states in the daughter $^{13}$C are given. We also provide simple polynomial fits to those cross sections for quick estimates of the reaction rates. We briefly discuss possible implications for the current and future scintillator-based experiments.