Conveners
Axion III
- Jan Schütte-Engel
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Ngan Nguyen09/05/2023, 16:30Axion and ALP
We characterize in detail the diffuse axion background sourced by all the stars in the universe throughout the cosmic history and discuss the feasibility of probing this background via its decay to X-ray. We focus on main sequence stars and base our calculations on the stellar interior profiles from MESA along with recent models of star formation history and stellar initial mass function.
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Kevin Langhoff (UC Berkeley)09/05/2023, 16:45
Searches for dark matter decaying into photons constrain its lifetime to be many orders of magnitude larger than the age of the Universe. A corollary statement is that the abundance of any particle that can decay into photons over cosmological timescales is constrained to be much smaller than the cold dark-matter density. We show that an irreducible freeze-in contribution to the relic density...
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Edward Broadberry (University of Maryland, College Park)09/05/2023, 17:00Axion and ALP
We introduce a mechanism by which a misaligned ALP can be dynamically converted into a dark photon in the presence of a background dark magnetic field. An abundance of non-relativistic ALPs will produce dark photons with momentum of order the inhomogeneities in the background field; therefore a highly homogeneous field will produce non-relativistic dark photons without relying on any...
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LINGFENG LI (Brown U.)09/05/2023, 17:15Axion and ALP
If a light axion is present during inflation and becomes part of dark matter afterwards, its quantum fluctuations contribute to dark matter isocurvature. In this article, we introduce a whole new suite of cosmological observables for axion isocurvature, which could help test the presence of axions, as well as its coupling to the inflaton and other heavy spectator fields during inflation such...
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Katherine Fraser (Harvard University)09/05/2023, 17:30Axion and ALP
In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the physics of axion strings since they naturally arise in axion models and can have a dramatic impact on cosmological observations. It is well- known that axion strings superconduct since massless chiral excitations can propagate along them. Aside from anomaly inflow, a common explanation for why these modes exist is that a bulk fermion...
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Hengameh Bagherian09/05/2023, 17:45Axion and ALP
The chromo-natural inflation (CNI) scenario predicts a potentially detectable chiral gravitational wave signal, generated by a Chern-Simons coupling between a rolling scalar axion field and an SU(2) gauge field with an isotropy-preserving classical background during inflation. However, the generation of this signal requires a very large integer Chern-Simons level, which can be challenging to...
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Mr Ray Hagimoto (Rice U.)09/05/2023, 18:00
Axion-like particles (ALPs) can form a network of cosmic strings and domain walls that survives after recombination and leads to anisotropic birefringence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This effect provides a unique way of probing ALPs with masses in the range $3H_0 \lesssim m_a \lesssim 3H_{\rm cmb}$. In this talk I discuss the two-point statistics of birefringence from axion...
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Michael A. Fedderke (Johns Hopkins University)09/05/2023, 18:15Axion and ALP
I will present a novel search technique for axions with a CP-violating monopole coupling $\tilde{g}_{Q}$ to bulk SM charges $Q \in \{B,L,B-L\}$. Gradients in the static axion field configurations sourced by matter induce achromatic circular photon birefringence via the axion-photon coupling $g_{\phi \gamma}$. Circularly polarized light fed into an optical or (open) radio-frequency (RF)...
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