When:
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Tina Hoff
(847) 491-3645
Group: AMO: The Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Title: Probing the Dark Universe for Axions
Speaker: Rakshya Khatiwada, University of Washington
Abstract: The QCD axion is a weakly interacting sub-eV mass particle. It is also a good cold dark matter candidate and if discovered could explain the long-standing strong CP problem. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is one of the three DOE “Generation-2” direct dark matter searches and the only one dedicated to finding the QCD axion. In 2017 ADMX achieved sensitivity to the very compelling DFSZ (“GUT”) axion, a decades-long goal of axion experimenters. This talk will focus on this result along with the recent upgrades, including the dilution refrigerator operating at 90mK, the state-of-the-art quantum electronics and new techniques used to obtain these results. There will also be a discussion on landscape of future of axion searches.