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

by Sacha Davidson (Lyon)

Tuesday 17 Feb 2015, 13:15 → 15:00 Europe/Stockholm

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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. Sadly I do not have an answer, which would require simulating galaxy formation in the presence of classical field dark matter.