Spring Institute 2019 The importance of being light: Axions, Nambu-Goldstone Bosons, and Vector Bosons in the Dark

Contribution List

1. Axion miniclusters and implications for axion detection

Luca Visinelli (Uppsala Univ.)

21/05/2019, 11:00

Axions and axion-like particles are excellent dark matter candidates, spanning a vast range of mass scales from the milli- and micro-eV for the QCD axion, to even lighter candidates that make up the “axiverse”. In some scenarios, inhomogeneities in the axion density lead to the formation of compact structures known as axion “miniclusters” and axion stars. Topological defects in the early...

2. New light bosons from tritium decay

Giorgio Arcadi (University of Goettingen)

21/05/2019, 14:30

3. Nambu-Goldstone bosons in Cosmology

Luca Di Luzio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

22/05/2019, 11:00

4. Neutral hadrons disappearing into the darkness

Daniele Barducci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

22/05/2019, 14:30