PIRSA:15060003

A is for Axion (in the Alphabet of Bsm Curiosities)

APA

Davidson, S. (2015). A is for Axion (in the Alphabet of Bsm Curiosities). Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/15060003

MLA

Davidson, Sacha. A is for Axion (in the Alphabet of Bsm Curiosities). Perimeter Institute, Jun. 16, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15060003

BibTex

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:15060003,
            doi = {10.48660/15060003},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15060003},
            author = {Davidson, Sacha},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {A is for Axion (in the Alphabet of Bsm Curiosities)},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2015},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:15060003 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Sacha Davidson Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon

Abstract

The  QCD axion is a curious Dark Matter candidate, having a mass like the neutrino, but behaving as Cold Dark Matter. I will review how this occurs, and discuss the interesting question  of whether WIMPs could be distinguished from axions with Large Scale Structure data.