14–19 May 2017
Thessaloniki, Greece
Europe/Athens timezone

Searching for the QCD Axion with Gravitational Microlensing

19 May 2017, 12:40
20m
Hotel MAKEDONIA PALACE (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Hotel MAKEDONIA PALACE

Thessaloniki, Greece

2, Megalou Alexandrou Avenue, GR-54640, Thessaloniki, Greece
Presentation Session 16

Speaker

Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College London)

Description

The phase transition responsible for axion dark matter production can create large amplitude isocurvature perturbations which collapse into dense objects known as axion miniclusters. We use microlensing data from the EROS survey, and from recent observations with the Subaru Hyper Suprime Cam to place constraints on the minicluster scenario.

Primary author

Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College London)

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