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We quantify our current knowledge of the size and flavor structure of the matter effects in the evolution of neutrinos based solely on the global analysis of oscillation neutrino data. The results are translated in terms of the present allowed ranges for the corresponding non-standard neutrino interactions in matter.
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Gonzalez-Garcia, M.C., Maltoni, M. Determination of matter potential from global analysis of neutrino oscillation data. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 152 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2013)152
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