Speaker
Chiara Salemi
Description
Axions are one of the most compelling answers to the open question of the identity of the universe’s dark matter. Detecting them is challenging, due to their tiny expected couplings to visible matter and their very low, unknown mass. The DMRadio program is working to overcome these challenges to search for low-mass axion dark matter using a lumped-element detection technique. Here I will present the detection concept as well as progress on the two current experiments, DMRadio-50L and CAL-Pathfinder. I will also talk about the path forward toward detecting GUT-motivated QCD axions.