Speaker
Joerg Jaeckel
(University of Durham)
Description
Although this workshop is mainly concerned with the MeV to GeV scale,
new physics may hide at even lower perhaps sub-eV masses. A famous
example is the axion which has a sub-eV mass, solves the strong CP
problem (appearing at the few 100 MeV scale of QCD) and is also one of
the leading dark matter candidates.
Going beyond this example we argue that there exists an excellent
`physics case' motivating the search for axions, but also for more
general WISPs (very weakly interacting sub-eV particles). This physics
case arises from both experimental and observational evidence as well as
the desire to test theoretical model building and opens up new and
exciting possibilities for existing and future experiments.
Primary author
Joerg Jaeckel
(University of Durham)
