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

Search for axions in streaming dark matter

18 May 2017, 12:00
20m
Hotel MAKEDONIA PALACE (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Hotel MAKEDONIA PALACE

Thessaloniki, Greece

2, Megalou Alexandrou Avenue, GR-54640, Thessaloniki, Greece

Speaker

Dr Antonios Gardikiotis (University of Patras)

Description

Streaming axion DM may be the better source for their discovery than the isotropic DM. Because, a large flux enhancement can take place, temporally, due to gravitational lensing when the Sun and/or a planet are aligned with the stream. Of interest are axion miniclusters, in particular, if the solar system has trapped one during its formation. Wide-band axion antennae fit this concept, but also the proposed fast narrow band scanning. A network of detectors can provide full time coverage (and large axion mass acceptance). Other DM searches may profit from this proposal.

Primary author

Dr Antonios Gardikiotis (University of Patras)

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