2000/03/31 by E. Kolbe, K. Langanke · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.63.025802
published as Phys.Rev. C63 (2001) 025802 · 23 pages (including 7 figures)
arxiv created 2000/10/26 · openalex publication_date 2001/01/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We have calculated cross sections and branching ratios for neutrino-induced reactions on 208Pb and 56Fe for various supernova and accelerator-relevant neutrino spectra. This was motivated by the facts that lead and iron will be used on the one hand as target materials in future neutrino detectors and, on the other hand, have been and are still used as shielding materials in accelerator-based experiments. In particular we study the inclusive 56Fe(\ensuremathνe,e^\ensuremath-)56Co and 208Pb(\ensuremathνe,e^\ensuremath-)208Bi cross sections and calculate the neutron energy spectra following the decay of the daughter nuclei. These reactions give a potential background signal in the KARMEN and LSND experiment and are discussed as a detection scheme for supernova neutrinos in the proposed OMNIS and LAND detectors. We also study the neutron emission following the neutrino-induced neutral-current excitation of 56Fe and 208Pb.