27–30 Jul 2021
Zoom / Gather.town
America/New_York timezone

Dynamical Axions and Gravitational Waves

28 Jul 2021, 15:00
30m
Zoom / Gather.town

Zoom / Gather.town

Speaker

Rachel Houtz (Durham IPPP)

Description

In this talk I discuss the gravitational wave signals of dynamical axion models. In particular, I focus on models which solve the strong CP problem and include the confinement of a QCD-like gauge group at the TeV scale. Interestingly, the amplitude of the gravitational wave spectrum depends on the mass of the dynamical axion. The resulting spectra may be observed at future mid-range gravitational wave experiments such as AION/MAGIS, DECIGO, and BBO. Moreover, the TeV states can be searched for at colliders, providing a unique connection between axion physics, gravitational waves and collider searches.

Primary author

Rachel Houtz (Durham IPPP)

Co-authors

Prof. Djuna Croon (TRIUMF and Durham U., IPPP) Prof. Veronica Sanz (IFIC, U. Valencia)

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