Dark matter across all scales: From large scale structure to laboratory searches

Session

Axion Dark Matter

11 May 2026, 11:00

DIAS Seminar Room (University of Southern Denmark)

Conveners

Axion Dark Matter

• Manuel Meyer (University of Hamburg)

12. Why we should believe in axion dark matter

Philip Sørensen (University of Padova / INFN Padova)

11/05/2026, 11:00

Laboratory Dark Matter Searches

Invited talk

In this talk, I will review how both QCD axions and axion-like-particles may be produced as dark matter in the early universe. I will start with a quick theoretical motivation for why we should believe in the existence of axions in the first place, and I will then cover the main productions mechanisms which might be responsible for the production of axions as dark matter. This covers, in...

11. Axion Haloscopes: Resonator Design and Quantum-Enhanced Readout

Jacob Mathias Egge (DESY)

11/05/2026, 11:40

Laboratory Dark Matter Searches

Invited talk

The axion is one of the most compelling dark matter candidates, simultaneously resolving the strong CP problem and accounting for the observed dark matter abundance. Detecting it requires extraordinary sensitivity, as the expected signals are buried far below thermal noise. Haloscopes — instruments exploiting axion-photon conversion in a strong magnetic field — have entered a rapidly evolving...