Speaker
Kevin Zhou
(Stanford/SLAC)
Description
The QCD axion is a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model which dynamically relaxes away strong CP violation. However, to date most searches for the axion have instead focused on its model-dependent coupling to photons. I will present a new idea for axion detection that directly targets its defining coupling to gluons, by resonantly amplifying the oscillating currents from time-varying atomic electric dipole moments. If these effects are enhanced by large nuclear Schiff moments, such as in octupole-deformed nuclei, our proposal could be sensitive to the QCD axion's defining coupling at the most motivated GHz frequencies.
Primary authors
Asher Berlin
(NYU)
Kevin Zhou
(Stanford/SLAC)
