| Speaker: | Ken'ichi Saikawa (Max-Planck-Institute ) |
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| Title: | Stellar hints for axion hunters |
| Date (JST): | Wed, Aug 08, 2018, 13:30 - 14:30 |
| Place: | Seminar Room A |
| Related File: | 2078.pdf |
| Abstract: | The current observations of stars at different evolutionary stages show a mild preference for additional energy losses than the standard case. We discuss the possibility to explain such excessive energy losses in terms of the axion, the hypothetical pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson predicted by the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong CP problem. We explore whether typical axion models such as DFSZ-type and KSVZ-type models can accommodate all or a part of the stellar cooling anomalies, and provide the best fit of their parameters. These fits generically prefer an axion mass around 10 meV, and such a preferred mass range can be probed by future experiments. We also show that the axion in this mass range can be the main constituent of dark matter. |
