Conveners
Session 15
- SUSANA CEBRIAN (UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA)
The DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB uses thick, fully-depleted, scientific grade charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to search for the interactions between proposed dark matter particles in the galactic halo and the ordinary silicon atoms in the detector. DAMIC CCDs operate with an extremely low instrument noise and dark current, making them particularly sensitive to ionization signals expected from...
Axions are among the best motivated candidates for new physics. If the Peccei-Quinn symmetry associated with an axion has been ever restored after inflation, topological defects of the axion field (in particular strings) form and produce an irreducible contribution to the stochastic gravitational wave background during the evolution of the Universe. After reviewing recent progress in the...