Department of Physics

Members of the AxionDM project

Senior members

Stefano Bonetti
Jan Conrad
Jon Gudmundsson
David Marsh
Frank Wilczek
Hiranya Peiris (PI)

Postdocs / Researchers

Tom Edwards
Matthew Lawson
Alexander Millar
Keir Rogers

PhD students

Alexandre Adler
Konstantina Dachlythra
Katherine Dunne
Eike Müller

Associate members

Alexander Balatsky (Nordita)
Matthias Geilhufe (Nordita)
Ariel Goobar
Tim Linden
Bart Olsthoorn (Nordita)
Andreas Rydh

External and International partners

Arizona State University:
Nate Newman

Chalmers / Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University:
Leonid Kuzmin

MIT

Sid Morampudi

Stanford University

Sebastian Baum

UC Berkeley:
Karl Van Bibber
Alexander Droster
Vishal Gajjar
Al Kenany
Samantha Lewis

UC Berkeley / LBNL:
Sinead Griffin

UC Davis:
Valentin Taufour

University of Michigan:
Josh Foster
Ben Safdi

Last updated: May 20, 2020
Source: Hiranya Peiris

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Hiranya Peiris

hiranya.peiris@fysik.su.se

New VR research environment grant will focus on axions

a cylindrical bundle of wires where the space between them can vary

The Oskar Klein Centre and Stockholm University will become a hub for axion research beginning now in 2020 thanks to a new Research Environment grant from the Swedish Research Council. A theoretical particle so far, the axion was introduced to explain why the strong force works the same both backwards and forwards in time and is also considered a serious dark matter candidate. The discovery of a cosmic axion background, or the ability to rule it out, would be an important result for both Standard Model physics and dark matter searches.

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