Axions
Event details
| Date | 17.05.2016 › 26.05.2016 |
| Hour | 14:15 › 18:00 |
| Speaker | Dr Giovanni VILLADORO, ICTP, Internation Centre for Theoretical Physics, Leonardo, Trieste, Italiy |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Lecture dates: 17, 19, 24, 26 May
Giovanni Villadoro from the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste will deliver 4 CUSO lectures on axions. These are particles which have been speculated to exist to solve the long-standing mystery of time reversal invariance of the strong interactions (nuclear physics) and which could also represent the main component of dark matter in galaxy halos. The detection of such particles is an interesting area where mysteries of high-energy physics meet advances in experimental condensed matter physics.
The course will cover the following topics: the strong CP problem (including some non-axionic solutions) the QCD axion solution, possible UV completions, the properties of the axion and its effective field theory, the axion as a DM candidate and its cosmology, existing bounds and detection techniques, and the physics of other axion-like particles. The last lecture, on May 26, will cover the issue of detection.
Giovanni Villadoro from the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste will deliver 4 CUSO lectures on axions. These are particles which have been speculated to exist to solve the long-standing mystery of time reversal invariance of the strong interactions (nuclear physics) and which could also represent the main component of dark matter in galaxy halos. The detection of such particles is an interesting area where mysteries of high-energy physics meet advances in experimental condensed matter physics.
The course will cover the following topics: the strong CP problem (including some non-axionic solutions) the QCD axion solution, possible UV completions, the properties of the axion and its effective field theory, the axion as a DM candidate and its cosmology, existing bounds and detection techniques, and the physics of other axion-like particles. The last lecture, on May 26, will cover the issue of detection.
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- Dr Roberto Contino, EPFL-SB-IPHYS-LPTP
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- Dr Roberto Contino, EPFL-SB-IPHYS-LPTP