30 May 2011 to 3 June 2011
IST Congress Centre
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Pseudoscalar-photon mixing in an expanding Universe

31 May 2011, 18:15
15m
VA3 (IST Congress Center)

VA3

IST Congress Center

Speaker

Dr Subhayan Mandal (University Of Liege)

Description

We establish the equation of motion of pseudoscalar particles coupled to an electromagnetic field in a classical gravitational background through the use of conformal time and flat geometry. We show that in general the expansion of the universe leads to larger mixing than in a stationary universe. We also show that for a broad range of parameters, one can obtain a resonance mixing, i.e. a region in which the mixing becomes maximum.

Author

Dr Subhayan Mandal (University Of Liege)

Co-author

Prof. Jean-Rene Cudell (University Of Liege)

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