Astroparticle Physics

A is for Axion (in the Alphabet of Bsm Curiosities)

Name: A is for Axion (in the Alphabet of Bsm Curiosities)
Start: 2015-06-22T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2015-06-22T15:30:00+02:00
Location: DESY Hamburg

by Sacha Davidson (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon)

Monday 22 Jun 2015, 14:30 → 15:30 Europe/Berlin

Bdg. 67, room 10 (DESY Hamburg)

Bdg. 67, room 10

DESY Hamburg

Description

The QCD axion is a curious Dark Matter candidate, having a mass like the neutrino, but behaving as Cold Dark Matter. I will review how this occurs, and discuss the interesting question of whether axions could be distinguished from WIMPs with Large Scale Structure data.