Speaker
Dr
Alfredo Davide Ferella
(Stockholm University)
Description
Axions and axion like particles (ALPs) belong to a class of well motivated dark matter candidates. A
variety of techniques are employed in several experimental efforts to directly detect them. An
oscillating axion field can exert a time-varying torque on the nuclear spins; such spin precession can
be detected using nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, as in the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession
Experiment (CASPEr). An overview of the CASPEr experimental efforts will be presented highlighting
the various phases of the program and their expected sensitivities to the axion parameter space.
Primary author
Dr
Alfredo Davide Ferella
(Stockholm University)
