Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

Looking beyond Dark Matter in Axion Haloscope

Date: 
20. May 2022 - 11:30
Speaker: 
Nicholas Rodd (CERN)
Abstract: The coming decade will bring dramatic improvement in the axion dark-matter program as new experimental designs move beyond the proof of principle stage. In this talk I will outline two signals beyond dark matter that these instruments could discover. The first is a population of relativistic axions that were produced in the early universe and persist as a residual Cosmic axion Background (CaB). The second is high-frequency gravitational waves; I will outline how exploiting an analogy between axion and gravitational-wave electrodynamics allows for axion haloscopes to be converted into gravitational-wave telescopes.

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