7–11 Jul 2025
America/Toronto timezone

Hunting axions with the James Webb Space Telescope

10 Jul 2025, 16:40
20m

Speaker

Elena Pinetti (Flatiron Institute/Simons Foundation)

Description

Axions with a mass around 1 eV can decay into near-infrared photons. Using blank-sky observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, I search for a narrow emission line due to decaying dark matter and derive leading constraints on the axion-photon coupling in the eV-scale mass range.

Author

Elena Pinetti (Flatiron Institute/Simons Foundation)

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