The Search for Low-Mass Axion Dark Matter

Note: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/7143324009
Speaker: Chiara Salemi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

When: December 7, 2020 (Mon), 03:00PM to 04:00PM (add to my calendar)
Hosted by: Eric Boyers

This event is part of the Graduate Student Council Events.

Part of the student seminar series. A recording will be posted on the event page.

Abstract: Despite evading detection for decades, dark matter remains the best explanation for a multitude of anomalies in astronomical observations of stars, galaxies, and the cosmic microwave background. One of the best-motivated candidates to be the dark matter is the axion, an ultra-light boson that can also solve outstanding issues in the strong force and is predicted by many high-energy theories. In this talk I will discuss two current experimental searches for low-mass axions, ABRACADABRA and DM Radio, including preliminary results from the latest run of the prototype experiment ABRACADABRA-10 cm. These experiments use a lumped-element method to search for the feeble interactions between dark matter axions and magnetic fields.