16th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

Session

Session 2

14 Jun 2021, 14:50

Online Workshop

Conveners

Session 2

• Axel Lindner (DESY)

30. True axions beyond the canonical band

PABLO QUILEZ (DESY)

14/06/2021, 14:50

In this talk, I will review the different mechanisms that have been proposed in the literature in order to solve the strong CP problem with axions that lie outside the canonical QCD axion band. The general strategy involves either enhancing/suppressing a specific Wilson coefficient among the axion couplings to SM fields, or increasing/lowering the axion mass for a given axion scale. Given the...

97. Dark matter annual modulation results from the ANAIS-112 experiment

SUSANA CEBRIAN (UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA)

14/06/2021, 15:25

An annual modulation in the interaction rate of galactic dark matter is expected by the revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a modulation signal compatible with expectations has been observed by the DAMA/LIBRA experiment for about twenty years, being one of the most puzzling experimental results in the field as it has not been confirmed by other dark matter direct detection experiments....

50. Direct detection of WIMPs of arbitrary spin

Prof. Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

14/06/2021, 15:50

There is no compelling reason for dark matter particles to be elementary, or for their spin to be limited to 0, 1/2, or 1. Composite dark matter, for example, or mirror dark matter, or molecular dark matter with suppressed lower multipoles, may interact with nuclei through high spin operators. I will present a systematic approach to characterize the most general non-relativistic WIMP-nucleus...

126. Axion Stars: Toward the Planck Scale

Joshua Eby (Kavli IPMU)

14/06/2021, 16:10

131. The Geomagnetic Field and the Search for Axions

Argyris Nicolaidis (Theoretical Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

14/06/2021, 16:15