In our recent publications, we presented neutral-current
–nucleus cross-sections for the coherent and incoherent channels for some stable Mo isotopes, assuming a Mo detector medium, within the context of the deformed shell model. In these predictions, however, we have not included the
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In our recent publications, we presented neutral-current
–nucleus cross-sections for the coherent and incoherent channels for some stable Mo isotopes, assuming a Mo detector medium, within the context of the deformed shell model. In these predictions, however, we have not included the contributions in the cross-sections stemming from the stable
94,96Mo isotopes (abundance of
94Mo 9.12% and of
96Mo 16.50%). The purpose of the present work is to perform detailed calculations of
–
94,96Mo scattering cross-sections, for a given energy
of the incoming neutrino, for coherent and incoherent processes. In many situations, the
values range from 15 to 30 MeV, and in the present work, we used
= 15 MeV. Mo as a detector material has been employed by the MOON neutrino and double-beta decay experiments and also from the NEMO neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment. For our cross-section calculations, we utilize the Donnelly–Walecka multipole decomposition method in which the
–nucleus cross-sections are given as a function of the excitation energy of the target nucleus. Because only the coherent cross-section is measured by current experiments, it is worth estimating what portion of the total cross-section represents the measured coherent rate. This requires the knowledge of the incoherent cross-section, which is also calculated in the present work.
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