Cambridge High Energy Workshop 2021 - Axion Physics

Session

Session 3

28 Jul 2021, 10:00

Zoom / Gather.town

29. Axion Quasiparticles for Axion Dark Matter Detection

Dr Francesca Chadha-Day (Durham University)

28/07/2021, 10:00

Axion quasiparticles may exist in certain condensed matter systems. I will discuss the physics of axion quasiparticles, and how they may be used to detect axion dark matter via three-way mixing between the photon, axion and axion quasiparticle. I will introduce the proposed TOORAD experiment for TOpolOgical Resonant Axion Detection.

36. Axion Searches with two Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities

Christina Gao (Fermilab)

28/07/2021, 10:30

Axion (and axion-like-particle), a pseudo-scalar well-motivated in the beyond-the-Standard-Model physics, has a unique two photon vertex, which allows terrestrial experiments to directly look for them from the Sun or as a component of dark matter. Laboratory searches, with both the source and the detection of axion under control, so-called Light-shining-through-walls (LSW), are complementary...

47. Searching for axions with X-rays from magnetic white dwarf stars

Andrew Long (Rice University)

28/07/2021, 11:00

Axions couple extremely weakly to regular matter, making them challenging to probe in the laboratory. However, axions should be produced in the hot and dense environments of compact stars, providing these stars with an additional cooling channel that leads to well-known constraints on the axion’s couplings to matter. These constraints are indirect, and although compact stars are predicted to...