Quantum Sensing for Fundamental Physics Workshop

Session

Session 1

2 Sept 2026, 09:40

Amphithéâtre Hermite (Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP))

Conveners

Session 1

• Takis Kontos (LPENS)

15. Non-relativistic unitarity, long-range interactions and dark matter

Dr Kalliopi Petraki (LPENS)

02/09/2026, 09:40

16. Quantum sensing of axion dark matter and other cosmological signals

Dr Audrey Cottet (LPENS)

02/09/2026, 10:20

There is a general consensus that a large part of the matter and energy in the Universe is unknown. Well-established candidates for dark matter are axions or axion-like particles. While axions are expected, if they exist, to be everywhere in the galactic halo, their interaction with Standard Model particles is predicted to be very weak, and their mass (or frequency) is unknown. Hence, their...

17. Axion Searches at the University of Manchester

Dr Jamie McDonald (University of Manchester)

02/09/2026, 11:30

I give a brief update on axion experiments at the University of Manchester. I will describe recent updates on cavity development, plans to construct a pathfinder experiment at 30GHz, as well as detailing recent successes on the development of quantum noise limited parametric amplifiers. Time permitting, I will also describe searches for high-frequency gravitational waves.