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Sreemanti Chakraborti (IPPP, Durham University)22/09/2025, 16:20
Axion-like particles (ALPs) are compelling dark matter candidates, particularly in the "ultralight mass regime." In this talk, I will discuss the theoretical framework for ALP interactions with Standard Model fields, emphasising the renormalization group (RG) running and low-energy matching in quantum field theory. Many quantum sensor experiments are designed to probe very light ALPs, which...
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Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab)22/09/2025, 16:40
This talk will provide an overview of quantum sensing and its
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emerging applications in fundamental physics. In particular, it will
highlight the use of qubits, the foundational units of quantum computing
as novel sensors capable of detecting single quanta of energy beyond the
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Max Silva-Feaver (Yale University)22/09/2025, 17:00
The axion remains a compelling dark matter candidate, yet a substantial portion of its potential mass range remains unexplored. Post-inflation QCD axion string models suggest that axions could possess higher masses than what current haloscopes can detect. Traditional tunable cavity-based haloscopes have shown exceptional sensitivity at lower frequencies, but their effectiveness diminishes at...
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22/09/2025, 17:20
The past few years have seen major advances in understanding the properties of axions in string theory. This progress is thanks to new computational tools that allow for fast and automated calculations with Calabi-Yau manifolds, which I will briefly describe. I will then describe the predictions string theory makes for axion masses, decay constants, and axion-photon couplings, and how these...
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Dr Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)22/09/2025, 17:40
In this talk I will introduce angular redshift fluctuations (ARF), a novel cosmological observable that, contrary to other standard probes that measure the counts and the shapes of galaxies, looks at the galaxies' redshifts and their fluctuations when projected under any given redshift shell. I will show ARF are found to be extremely sensitive to radial peculiar velocities, and also to the...
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Prof. Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia)22/09/2025, 18:00
In this talk I want to discuss the (unorthodox) scenario when the baryogenesis is replaced by a charge separation process in which the global baryon number of the Universe remains zero. In this, the so-called axion quark nugget (AQN) dark matter (DM) model the unobserved antibaryons come to comprise the dark matter in the form of nuclear density nuggets. In this talk I specifically focus...
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