Making the halo of Andromeda with the QCD Axion?

Dates

2016-12-13 15:00
Dates
2016-12-13 15:00

Localisation / Location

Salle / Local

483 A - Malevitch

Orateur/Orator

Sacha Davidson

Affiliation

IPN Lyon

Equipe(s) organisatrice(s) / Organizing team(s)

The  QCD axion is a curious Dark Matter candidate, having a mass like the neutrino, but behaving as Cold Dark Matter during linear structure formation. I will review how this occurs, and  speculate on the interesting question  of how  axions make galactic halos during non-linear structure formation, and whether  observations could distinguish them from WIMPs.