Conveners
Plenary 5
- Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang U.)
Gray Rybka
(U. of Washington)
16/06/2021, 08:20
The QCD axion is one of the leading particle candidates to explain what makes up the dark matter of the universe. In the last decade, advances in detectors has enabled the construction of experiments that are sensitive to the most plausible axion dark matter models. Now the race is on to search the theoretically favored masses and couplings and make a discovery. I will highlight efforts...
Maxim Pospelov
(U. of MInnesota/FTPI)
16/06/2021, 09:00
Mixing of neutrons (or more generically three-quark states ) with dark fermions may generate interesting phenomenological consequences such as novel decay channels for neutrons, a possibility of neutron oscillation to dark states etc. I review certain laboratory constraints, as well as cosmological and astrophysical probes that significantly narrow down the available parameter space. I will...
Richard Gaitskell
(Brown U.)
16/06/2021, 09:40
Particle dark matter is thought to be the overwhelming majority of the matter in the Universe. Its gravitational contribution overwhelms that from the ordinary matter that we, the earth and the stars, are composed of. However, providing direct evidence for the existence of particle dark matter has proved extremely challenging and any positive results remain controversial.
We have been...
