27–31 Aug 2018
Asia/Seoul timezone

Astrophysical and Cosmological Searches for Axions

27 Aug 2018, 11:30
30m
Main Hall

Main Hall

IBS Science and Culture Center, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, korea

Speaker

Dr David Marsh (U. of Goettingen)

Description

Axions span a vast parameter space, from axion inflation at the GUT scale, to axion dark energy at the Hubble scale. In between lie the benchmark models of the QCD axion, and “fuzzy dark matter”. Remarkably, vast swathes of this parameter space can be probed. I will review a mixed bag of such constraints and searches, with a focus on cosmology. I will also briefly discuss exciting new ideas in axion direct detection.

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