Collective effects in neutrino scattering on solid and liquid targets

Abstract

Neutrino scattering on liquid and solid targets at low energy transfer can serve both as a tool for searching the physics beyond the Standard Model, for example, such as neutrino electromagnetic interactions, and as a test of the Standard Model at low-energy scale. At the same time, the theoretical apparatus for low-energy elastic neutrino scattering on electrons and nuclei bound in liquids and solids must take into account collective effects in the electron and nuclear subsystems of the target. We develop such an apparatus based on the formalism of the dynamic structure factor. A numerical illustration of the role of the collective effects is provided for the case of a superfluid He-4 target.