Recent Progress in Axion Theory and Experiment

5 Sept 2022, 09:00 → 8 Sept 2022, 17:30 Europe/London

Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology

We welcome you to a 4 day workshop from 5 - 8 Sep 2022 in the beautiful city of Durham, UK,  to discuss recent developments in axion physics. We are planning an in-person meeting with a small number of invited talks covering a broad range of topics in axion physics. The workshop is funded by IPPP: there is no conference fee and the workshop dinner on 06 Sep is free for all participants.

Our aim is to leave plenty of time for stimulating discussions and we would especially encourage contributed abstracts.

Topics

• Astrophysical searches for axions
• Axions at colliders
• Laboratory searches
• Cosmology

We have a limited budget to cover travel and accommodation for those who would otherwise be unable to attend. Please indicate on the registration form if you would like to apply for this. For full consideration for funding, please apply by the end of July. We will make decisions as soon as possible after this date.

The registration deadline is 12th August.

Organising Committee:                             Confirmed Speakers:

Martin Bauer                                                Björn Garbrecht (TUM)

Francesca Chadha-Day                              Stefan Knirck (Fermilab)

Jamie McDonald                                         David J. E Marsh (KCL)         

                                                                       Sophie Renner (CERN)              

                        

                                 

 

Monday, 5 September

10:00 → 11:00 Talk: Experimental Searches

Convener: Stefan Knirck (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

knirck_stefan_axion_experiments.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Coffee Break and Discussion

12:00 → 13:00 Talk: Effects of U(1) gauge bosons and small size instantons on axions at collider scales

Convener: Julien Laux (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Recent_Axion_Julien_Laux.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Talk: MADMAX: a novel dielectric haloscope

Convener: Dagmar Kreikemeyer (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

MADMAX_AxionProgress_DurhamSept2022_DKRE.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Coffee break and Discussion

16:30 → 17:30 Talk: MiMeS: Misalaignment Mechanism Solver

Convener: Dimitrios Karamitros (University of Manchester)

MiMeS_DK.pdf

Tuesday, 6 September

10:00 → 11:00 Talk: Making dark matter waves: untangling wave interference for multi-streaming dark matter - Alex Gough

2022_Gough_Durham.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Coffee break and Discussion

12:00 → 13:00 Talk: Alexandros Papageorgiou: Axion dark matter from frictional misalignment

Axion_Dark_Matter_Presentation-5.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Talk: Improved Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence from the WMAP and Planck Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Data - Johannes Eskilt

cosmic-birefringence-eskilt.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Coffee break and Discussion

16:30 → 17:30 Talk: Gravitational wave signatures of axionic domain walls

Convener: Ricardo Z. Ferreira (IFAE-Barcelona)

TalkDurham-6Sep2022-RicardoZFerreira.pdf

19:30 → 22:30 Tuesday: Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 7 September

10:00 → 11:00 Talk: Bjorn Garbrecht: Two problems for strong CP: Topological quantization and the first postulate of quantum mechanics

Durh22.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Coffee break and Discussion

12:00 → 13:00 Wednesday: Sophie Renner: Axions at Colliders

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Talk: QSHS - A UK search for hidden sector dark matter - Ed Daw (Guest Session)

qshs_for_axions_at_durham.pdf

15:00 → 16:30 Coffee break and Discussion

16:30 → 17:30 Talk: Astrophysical Constraints on Axions

Convener: David Marsh (King's College London)

AxionAstro_Marsh.pdf

17:30 → 18:30 Wednesday: Social Event : Whitechurch Pub

Thursday, 8 September

10:00 → 11:00 Talk: Detecting Axions from Neutron Stars with Radio Telescopes - Sankarshana Srinivasan

Talk_Durham_Srinivasan.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Coffee break and Discussion

12:00 → 13:00 Thursday: Julia Sisk-Reynes: Using the X-ray transparency of galaxy clusters to constrain light Axion-Light Particles and the hope with future X-ray missions.

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Thursday: James Matthews: How Do Magnetic Field Models Affect Astrophysical Limits on Light Axion-like Particles? An X-ray case study and the Fourier formalism

15:30 → 16:30 Coffee break and discussion