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Vector Dark Matter (VDM) that couples to lepton flavor (Le, Lμ, Lτ) acts similarly to a chemical potential for the neutrino flavor eigenstates and modifies neutrino oscillations. VDM imparts unique signatures such as time and directional dependence with longer baselines giving better sensitivity. We use the non-observation of such a signal at Super-Kamiokande to rule out the existence of VDM in a region of parameter space several orders of magnitude beyond other constraints and show the projected reach of future experiments such as DUNE.
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We thank Aaron Vincent for useful discussions. DB, SD, AH and CR are supported in part by the NSF under Grant No. PHY-2210361 and by the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP). This research was supported in part by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported by the Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation.
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Brzeminski, D., Das, S., Hook, A. et al. Constraining Vector Dark Matter with neutrino experiments. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 181 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2023)181
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