Axions & IAXO in Spain

from Thursday, 27 October 2016 (09:00) to Friday, 28 October 2016 (16:55)
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27 Oct 2016
28 Oct 2016
AM
09:00 Welcome and introduction  
09:10 Axions: motivation and landscape - Dr Javier Redondo  
09:35 Axions in horizontal branch stars - Adrián Ayala (U. de Granada)  
10:00 The Sun as an axion source - Aldo Serenelli  
10:25 Searching for solar axions with CAST - Theopisti Dafni (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
10:50
Coffee break (until 11:30)
11:35 IAXO: status of project - Igor Garcia Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
09:00 Cosmic Axion Background - Domenec Espriu  
09:25 Decaying axion DM at the meV scale - Carlos Peña-Garay  
09:50 Axions and the white dwarfs cooling anomaly - Jordi Isern  
10:15 Development of filter-like cavities for axion DM searches (RADES project) - Antonio José Lozano Alejandro Alvarez Melcon  
10:40 A non-tracking axion helioscope - Javier Galán  
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:40)
11:40
Time for discussion (spill over from last day) (until 14:00)
PM
12:00 Axions and the CMB - Stefano Gariazzo  
12:25 Axion Dark Radiation in IAXO - Jose M. Carmona  
12:50 Ultra-light ALP dark matter - Angel Paredes  
13:30
Lunch break (until 15:35)
15:35 Low background microbulk Micromegas detectors for axion searches - Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))  
16:00 Development of microfabricated Micromegas detectors for axion research - Manuel Lozano  
16:25 Axion dark matter searches in IAXO - Dr Javier Redondo  
16:55
Debate on axion research in Spain: synnergies, collaborations (until 18:35)
20:30
Dinner (until 22:30)