Cross sections of neutral-current neutrino scattering on ^98,100Mo isotopes

Abstract

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a neutral-current low-energy 
electro-weak reaction-channel detected recently by the COHERENT experiment at the Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory (ORNL), USA, in the Spallation Neutron Source facility. The extremely weak signal on the 
$CsI$ detector of the first experiment and on the liquid $Ar$ of the repeated COHERENT experiment is 
the energy-recoil due to the neutrino-nucleus interaction, where the nucleus is elastically scattered 
as a whole while simultaneously the neutrino goes out. Today, several promising nuclear detectors 
are on the way to be employed in designed and ongoing experiments. In our present work, we provide 
predictions for incoherent scattering cross sections of low-energy neutrinos on $^{98,100}$Mo isotopes 
obtained with the Deformed Shell Model employed previously for similar predictions in other electroweak 
processes. We mention that, Mo detector medium has been used previously in the MOON and NEMO double 
beta decay experiments.