High Energy Physics Seminar

Series: High Energy Physics Seminar Series

The QCD axion and Unification

Clara Murgui, Universitat de Valencia & Case Western Reserve University,

The QCD axion is one of the most appealing candidates for the dark matter in the Universe. In this talk, I will discuss the possibility to predict the axion mass in the context of a simple renormalizable grand unified theory where the Peccei-Quinn scale is determined by the unification scale. In this framework, the axion mass is predicted to be in the range that ABRACADABRA and CASPEr-Electric experiments will be able to fully probe.

Event Sponsors:

Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy - More events from this Sponsor
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics - More events from this Sponsor

For more information, please visit http://theory.caltech.edu/people/carol/seminar.html.