Nuclear structure uncertainties in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering

Understand

The effects of the nuclear structure uncertainties on the description of processes induced by coherent scattering of neutrinos on nuclei are investigated.

• A reference calculation based on a specific nuclear model is defined and the cross sections and also the expected number of events produced by neutrinos generated by the explosion of a supernova in our galaxy, and by a spallation neutron source are evaluated.
• By changing the input parameters of the reference calculation their relevance on cross sections and on the number of the detected events is estimated.
• Seven spherical nuclei with different proton to neutron ratios are considered as possible targets of the neutrinos in the detector, the lightest being $^{12}$C and the heaviest $^{208}$Pb.