TY - JOUR
T1 - Resonant neutrino scattering
T2 - An impossible experiment?
AU - Suzuki, D.
AU - Sumikama, T.
AU - Ogura, M.
AU - Mittig, W.
AU - Shiraki, A.
AU - Ichikawa, Y.
AU - Kimura, H.
AU - Otsu, H.
AU - Sakurai, H.
AU - Nakai, Y.
AU - Hussein, M. S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is partly supported by the CNPq and FAPESP (Brazil). M.S.H. is the Martin Gutzwiller Fellow, 2007/2008 at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme-Dresden.
Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/4/12
Y1 - 2010/4/12
N2 - The experimental feasibility was investigated for the resonant scattering of monoenergetic neutrinos emitted in the two-body β decay. A simple general formula shows that the resonance cross section can be as large as of the order of 10-17 cm2. The Mössbauer setup using a solid crystal was examined with a focus on the electronic structure of the emitter and the absorber. Based on realistic calculations, we show that interactions of valence electrons in the solid lead to a level broadening of the atomic ground state, which considerably suppresses the resonant scattering of neutrinos.
AB - The experimental feasibility was investigated for the resonant scattering of monoenergetic neutrinos emitted in the two-body β decay. A simple general formula shows that the resonance cross section can be as large as of the order of 10-17 cm2. The Mössbauer setup using a solid crystal was examined with a focus on the electronic structure of the emitter and the absorber. Based on realistic calculations, we show that interactions of valence electrons in the solid lead to a level broadening of the atomic ground state, which considerably suppresses the resonant scattering of neutrinos.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.024
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.024
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77949916497
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 687
SP - 144
EP - 148
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 2-3
ER -