Thursday, April 20, 2023, 16:00
OSGA/EG06
Matthias Schott, Mainz University
Abstract:
Physics beyond the Standard Model may hide at very low energies. The
axion, postulated by Wilczek and Weinberg almost 40 years ago, is a very
light, very weakly interacting new particle which, if it exists, could
answer a long-standing question of fundamental physics: why is the
electric dipole moment of the neutron so unnaturally small? Moreover,
axions may be (all or part of) the dark matter in our universe. In this
talk, I will give an overview of the current and future experimental
efforts to search for axions and more generally axion-like particles,
ranging from small experiments towards searches at the LHC.