Astrophysical searches of axion dark matter

Speaker
Marco Taoso
Affiliation
INFN Torino
Date
2025-11-24
Time
14:30
Venue
ON SITE: S3 Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Physics Building ONLINE: Teams
Host
Enrico Bertuzzo

Axions are hypothetical light and very weakly interacting particles. They are predicted in extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics and they act as candidates for dark matter.
In this talk, after reviewing the motivation for axions, I will discuss some promising strategies for their detection, with a particular emphasis on astrophysical searches.