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