1st Joint ILIAS-CAST-CERN Axion Training

Session

Lectures I

30 Nov 2005, 09:00

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

1. Introduction

Konstantin Zioutas (University of Patras)

30/11/2005, 09:00

2. The Strong CP Problem and Axions

Roberto Peccei (University of California)

30/11/2005, 09:10

Outline of the lecture:

In this lecture I will explain the origin of the Strong CP Problem, which is connected to the non- trivial structure of the vacuum state of the Standard Model. The most natural solution to this problem involves introducing an additional global chiral U(1) symmetry in the theory. Because this symmetry is both spontaneously broken and anomalous, this solution...

3. Axion Searches, Old and New

Pierre Sikivie (Institute for Advanced Study and University of Florida)

30/11/2005, 11:10

Outline of the lecture:

Constraints from laboratory searches and astrophysics, axion cosmology, the cavity detector of dark matter axions, solar axion searches, laser experiments, a telescope search, macroscopic forces mediated by axions.