SciPost Physics Lecture Notes

SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 45 (2022) · published 29 March 2022

Part of the 2021-07: Dark Matter Collection in the Les Houches Summer School Lecture Notes Series.

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Abstract

In these notes I try to introduce the reader to the topic of axions: their theoretical motivation and expected phenomenology, their role in astrophysics and as dark matter candidate, and the experimental techniques to detect them. Special emphasis is made in this last point, for which a relatively updated review of worldwide efforts and future prospects is made. The material is intended as an introduction to the topic, and it was prepared as lecture notes for Les Houches summer school 2021. Abundant references are included to direct the reader to deeper insight on the different aspects of axion physics.

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