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High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Nicolas Rodd (CERN) "Looking beyond Dark Matter in Axion Haloscopes"

Speaker: Nicolas Rodd (CERN)
Date: 3/11/2022
Time: 12 p.m.
Location: Virtual Seminar
Event Contact: Brandy Koebbe
BKOEBBE@ILLINOIS.EDU
Sponsor: Department of Physics
Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
 

The coming decade will bring dramatic improvement in the axion dark-matter program as new experimental designs move beyond the proof of principle stage. In this talk I will outline two signals beyond dark matter that these instruments could discover. The first is a population of relativistic axions that were produced in the early universe and persist as a residual Cosmic axion Background (CaB). The second is high-frequency gravitational waves; I will outline how exploiting an analogy between axion and gravitational-wave electrodynamics allows for axion haloscopes to be converted into gravitational-wave telescopes.