Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 3:30 pm — Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
Most of the matter in the Universe is "dark", and is suspected to be in the form of particle relics from the Big Bang. A plausible candidate is the axion, an extraordinarily light and weakly coupling particle arising from theories explaining CP-conservation in the strong force. Experiments are "listening" for the axion by their conversion to microwave photons in a resonant cavity permeated by a strong magnetic field. These detectors are by far the most sensitive radio receivers in the world, capable of detecting signals on the order of a trillionth of a trillionth of a watt. The search is driving two technologies that will soon make them much more sensitive yet, i.e. quantum-limited SQUID amplifiers, and Rydberg-atom single-quantum detectors.
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