ERC Consolidator Grant · 2019
Giga-Hertz Laboratory Experiment for Axion Dark Matter
The nature of the dark matter, making up most of the mass of the universe remains a mystery. The G-LEAD project aims at building an original experiment to test one of the favorite hypotheses for what dark matter could be : axions. Axions have been hypothesized in the late seventies and have been extensively searched for ever since. They elegantly solve the strong CP problem of the Standard Model and constitute a natural candidate for dark matter. Axions are expected to be very light particles and they would mix with photons in an external magnetic field. If dark matter is made of axions, a metal/air interface in a magnetic field would emit GHz radio waves. I hereby propose to build the…
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