Conveners
Plenary presentations
- Marc Schumann (Univertity of Freiburg)
Prof.
Lindley Winslow
(MIT)
20/06/2018, 09:35
Presentation
The evidence for the existence of Dark Matter is well supported by
many cosmological observations. Separately, long standing problems
within the Standard Model point to new weakly interacting particles to
help explain away unnatural fine-tunings. The axion was originally
proposed to explain the Strong-CP problem, but was subsequently shown
to be a strong candidate for explaining the Dark...
Prof.
Michael Tobar
(The University of Western Australia)
20/06/2018, 09:55
Presentation
The mass of axion dark matter is only weakly bounded by cosmological observations, necessitating a variety of detection techniques and experiments at many different mass ranges. Axions are calculated to convert to photons via the inverse Primakoff effect and cryogenic resonant cavities are often proposed as a tool for detecting these photons. However, such structures are inherently narrowband...
Dr
Igor Irastorza
(Universidad de Zaragoza)
20/06/2018, 10:15
Presentation
Axions are a natural consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism, the most compelling solution to the strong-CP problem. Similar axion-like particles (ALPs) also appear in a number of possible extensions of the Standard Model, notably in string theories. Both axions and ALPs are very well motivated candidates for the Dark Matter, they appear in other cosmological scenarios involving inflation,...
Prof.
Riccardo Brugnera
(Padova University and INFN Padova)
20/06/2018, 10:35
Presentation
Neutrinoless double beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$) decay is a lepton-number violating process which is predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model.
It could be the key to understand the nature of the neutrino. If observed, it would prove its Majorana nature and the half-life of the decay would be
a direct measure of the yet unknown absolute scale of the neutrino-mass,
assuming the...
