Name: Zooming in on Axions in the Early Universe
Start: 2020-06-22T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-06-26T21:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Monday, 22 June 2020
09:45 Welcome & Introduction - Kai Schmitz (CERN)
Welcome & Introduction
- Kai Schmitz (CERN)
09:45 - 10:00
Room: Virtual only Welcome and introduction to the workshop. I explain our motivation for organizing a virtual workshop, outline the workshop program, introduce our Virtual Axion Institute on Mattermost, and explain our poster sessions.
10:00 Morning session
Morning session
10:00 - 12:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

10:00 1. QCD axion dark matter and PBH, 2. Anomaly-free ALP DM and XENON1T - Fuminobu Takahashi (Tohoku University)

11:00 Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Virtual only
13:00 Afternoon session
Afternoon session
13:00 - 17:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

13:00 Fragmentation of axion-like particle dark matter and observational signatures - Aleksandr Chatrchyan (ITP Heidelberg)

14:00 Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute

15:00 Phenomenology of the meV QCD axion - David J. E. Marsh (University of Goettingen)

16:00 Axion kinetic misalignment and baryogenesis - Keisuke Harigaya (Institute for Advaned Study)
17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

17:00 Posters: Fernando Arias Aragón, Mario Reig, Raymond Co, Michael Fedderke - Fernando Arias Aragón (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Mario Reig (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)) Raymond Co (University of Michigan) Michael Fedderke (Stanford University)
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
10:00 Morning session
Morning session
10:00 - 12:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

10:00 Lattice formulation of axion inflation: application to preheating - Daniel G. Figueroa (IFIC, Valencia)

11:00 Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Virtual only
13:00 Afternoon session
Afternoon session
13:00 - 17:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

13:00 Equilibration of the chiral asymmetry due to finite electron mass - Oleksandr Sobol (EPFL)

14:00 Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute

15:00 Two talks on axion-SU(2) inflation (Ira Wolfson, Leila Mirzagholi) - Ira Wolfson (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching) Leila Mirzagholi (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching)

16:00 Thermal friction in early cosmology - Kim Berghaus (Johns Hopkins University)
17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

17:00 Posters: Tanmay Poddar, Yuta Hamada, Pablo Quílez, Alexandros Papageorgiou - Tanmay Poddar (Physical Research Laboratory) Yuta Hamada (APC Paris) Pablo Quilez Lasanta (DESY) Alexandros Papageorgiou (University of Minnesota)
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
10:00 Morning session
Morning session
10:00 - 12:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

10:00 Big bounce baryogenesis - Neil Barrie (Kavli IPMU)

11:00 Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Virtual only
13:00 Afternoon session 1
Afternoon session 1
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

13:00 Towards a robust estimate for gravitational leptogenesis - Kohei Kamada (Research Center for the Early Universe, University of Tokyo)
14:00 TH Colloquium
TH Colloquium
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

14:00 A unfied model of dark energy, dark matter and baryogenesis (TH Colloquium) - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)
15:00 Afternoon session 2
Afternoon session 2
15:00 - 17:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

15:00 Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Tanmay Poddar, Raymond Co) - Tanmay Poddar (Physical Research Laboratory) Raymond Co (University of Michigan)

16:00 Baryogenesis from axion inflation - Benedict von Harling (IFAE)
17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

17:00 Posters: Sang Hui Im, Jacob Leedom, Thomas Schwetz, Yuki Watanabe - Sang Hui Im (IBS-CTPU) Jacob Leedom (University of California, Berkeley) Thomas Schwetz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Yuki Watanabe (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
Thursday, 25 June 2020
10:00 Morning session
Morning session
10:00 - 12:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

10:00 Probing the relaxed relaxion with luminosity & S1 and S2 - Gilad Perez (Weizmann)

11:00 Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Thomas Schwetz) - Thomas Schwetz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Virtual only
13:00 Afternoon session 1
Afternoon session 1
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

13:00 Revisiting the relaxion mechanism - Geraldine Servant (DESY and U. Hamburg)
14:00 BSM Forum
BSM Forum
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

14:00 Pati-Salam axion (BSM Forum) - Luca Di Luzio (DESY)
15:00 Afternoon session 2
Afternoon session 2
15:00 - 18:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

15:00 Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Alexandros Papageorgiou) - Alexandros Papageorgiou (University of Minnesota)

16:00 A CMB Millikan experiment with cosmic axiverse strings - Anson Hook (University of Maryland)

17:00 The axidental Universe - Matthew Kleban (New York University)
18:00
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

18:00 Posters: Enrico Morgante, James Alvey, Alexis Plascencia, Ogan Ozsoy - Enrico Morgante (JGU Mainz) James Alvey (King's College London) Alexis Plascencia (Case Western Reserve University) Ogan Ozsoy (University of Warsaw)
Friday, 26 June 2020
10:00 Morning session
Morning session
10:00 - 12:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

10:00 1. Spontaneous Lepto/Baryogenesis & 2. Schwinger effect and Chiral anomaly - Kyohei Mukaida (DESY)

11:00 Morning coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Enrico Morgante) - Enrico Morgante (JGU Mainz)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Virtual only
13:00 Afternoon session
Afternoon session
13:00 - 17:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

13:00 Primordial GWs from the axion-SU(2) gauge fields during inflation - Tomohiro Fujita (ICRR, Tokyo University)

14:00 GWs from axion preheating and SGWB reconstruction at LISA - Mauro Pieroni (Imperial College London)

15:00 Afternoon coffee in the Virtual Axion Institute (Sang Hui Im, Alexis Plascencia, Ogan Ozsoy) - Sang Hui Im (IBS-CTPU) Alexis Plascencia (Case Western Reserve University) Ogan Ozsoy (University of Warsaw)

16:00 Gravitational wave probes of axion-like particles - Benjamin A. Stefanek (JGU Mainz)
17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

17:00 Posters: Caner Ünal, Ashu Kushwaha, Michael Fedderke - Caner Ünal (Czech Academy of Sciences) Ashu Kushwaha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) Michael Fedderke (Stanford University)
18:00
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Virtual only
Contributions

18:00 Search for axions and axion-like particles with XENON1T - Michelle Galloway (University of Zurich)
19:00 Happy Hour
Happy Hour
19:00 - 21:00
Room: Virtual only <b>Zoom meeting:</b> <a href="https://cern.zoom.us/j/7930190483">https://cern.zoom.us/j/7930190483</a> (password: see email) Informal Happy Hour for everyone who wants to stick around. We won't provide any specific program; the idea simply is to chat a bit and have a drink together. However, if you wish to contribute to this Happy Hour in a particular way, e.g., by playing something on your guitar, teaching us your favorite cocktail recipe, or organizing a little pub quiz, please feel free to do so.