Open problems in the physics of neutrino interactions with nucleons and nuclei

2020

Along this thesis we address the interaction of neutrinos with nucleons and nuclei, in different scenarios. In first place, we critically analyze a proposal to explain the excess of events in the mini experiment, developed Masip et al. (JHEP 1301, 106 (2013)) and based in a model proposed by Gninenko (Phys. Rev. D83, 015015 (2011)). In this model we have a heavy neutrino, with a mass around 50 GeV, which would be produced in the interaction between the incoming light neutrino and the detector material. Then this heavy neutrino would decay emitting a light neutrino and a photon. The Cherenkov detectors are unable to distinguish a photon signal from an electron one, for this reason this model…