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SUMMARY:Axions
DTSTART:20160517T141500
DTEND:20160526T180000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Giovanni VILLADORO\, ICTP\, Internation Centre for Theoreti
 cal Physics\, Leonardo\, Trieste\, Italiy\nLecture dates: 17\, 19\, 24\, 2
 6 May\nGiovanni Villadoro from the International Center for Theoretical Ph
 ysics (ICTP) Trieste will deliver 4 CUSO lectures on axions. These are par
 ticles which have been speculated to exist to solve the long-standing myst
 ery of time reversal invariance of the strong interactions (nuclear physic
 s) and which could also represent the main component of dark matter in gal
 axy halos. The detection of such particles is an interesting area where my
 steries of high-energy physics meet advances in experimental condensed mat
 ter physics.\nThe course will cover the following topics: the strong CP pr
 oblem (including some non-axionic solutions) the QCD axion solution\, poss
 ible UV completions\, the properties of the axion and its effective field 
 theory\, the axion as a DM candidate and its cosmology\, existing bounds a
 nd detection techniques\, and the physics of other axion-like particles. T
 he last lecture\, on May 26\, will cover the issue of detection.
LOCATION:BSP-Cubotron\, CUB II\, 2e floor http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=BSP234
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