Coherent and incoherent antineutrino scattering on stable even-even isotopes of molybdenum detectors

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential of molybdenum isotopes as detection media for coherent and incoherent neutrino and antineutrino scattering, using the deformed shell model to calculate cross sections relevant for various neutrino sources.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed calculation of scattering cross sections for molybdenum isotopes using the deformed shell model, aiding future neutrino detection experiments.

Findings

Calculated coherent and incoherent scattering cross sections for Mo isotopes.

Demonstrated the model's effectiveness in fitting experimental data.

Provided insights for designing neutrino detection experiments.

Abstract

The recent observations of the coherent neutrino- and antineutrino-nucleus scattering have opened up a plethora of opportunities to probe physics within standard and non-standard theories of the electroweak interactions. In the present article, our goal is to explore the possibility of using the molybdenum material as detection medium for coherent and incoherent antineutrino- and neutrino- Mo scattering in the ongoing and future coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE{\nu}NS) experiments by using relevant (anti-)neutrino beams as e.g. stopped pion-decay neutrino beams, reactor antineutrino beams, astrophysical (solar or supernova) (anti)neutrino beams, etc. Our present coherent and incoherent scattering cross sections of Mo isotopes with neutrinos and antineutrinos are based on the deformed shell model (DSM) that has been previously employed for studying similar processes. On the other hand, in the past, CE{\nu}NS events obtained with this model provided us with better fits to COHERENT experimental data compared to phenomenological form factors.