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High Energy Phenomenology, Experiment, and Cosmology Seminar Series artwork
December 7, 20224:00 pm – 5:00 pm (CDT)

Constraining Vector Dark Matter with Neutrino Experiments

Speaker:

Anson Hook (University of Maryland)

Host:

Doojin Kim

Event Details

Vector Dark Matter (VDM) that couples to lepton flavor (L_e, L_mu, L_tau) 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.  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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