Effect of neutrino electromagnetic properties on the quasielastic neutral-current neutrino-nucleus scattering
Abstract
In the quasielastic region, we investigate the effect of neutrino electromagnetic properties constrained from the recent experiments on the electroweak neutral current reaction process of the neutrino-12C scattering. For a relativistic description of the nuclear dynamics, we employ the relativistic mean-field model, which has been proven to describe the data nicely in the quasielastic region. In the present work, we analyze the influence beyond the Standard Model by considering the neutrino magnetic and electric dipole form factors and charge radius on the neutrino electroweak interactions within 12C. To this end, we use the values of the neutrino charge radius and the magnetic moment at the squared four momentum transfer Q2=0 obtained from the recent experiments and calculate the neutrino differential cross section of the neutrino-12C scattering. We find that the effect of the charge radius and the electric dipole form factor is very small, but the role of the magnetic dipole form factor is sensitive to Q2 and becomes sizable at small momentum transfer.