APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker: Sacha Davidson (Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lyon/CNRS )
Title: in the Alphabet of Bsm Curiosities, A is for Axion
Date (JST): Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room B
Related File: 1548.pdf
Abstract: The QCD axion is a curious Dark Matter candidate, having a mass like the neutrino, but behaving as Cold Dark Matter. I will review how this occurs, and discuss the interesting question of whether axions could be distinguished from WIMPs with Large Scale Structure data.