Speaker
Karl van Bibber
(University of California Berkeley)
Description
A half a century after its prediction, the axion continues to elude either detection or exclusion owing both to its extraordinarily weak couplings and its still largely unconstrained mass. Inspired detection strategies and dramatic advances in technology, particularly in quantum sensing however provide optimism for discovery of the axion or axion-like particles within the next few years. This talk with review the state of dark matter, solar and laboratory searches for the axion, along with the emerging field of observational axion searches. The review concludes with a prospectus of what may be expected after the axion is found.
| Main Contribution topic | Axion / Sterile |
|---|---|
| Secondary contribution topic | Light Dark Matter |
Author
Karl van Bibber
(University of California Berkeley)