Elusives/Invisibles+ Webinar: The Axiflavon

Marzo 14, 2017
De 3:00pm hasta 4:00pm

Audiovisual Room

Specialist level
Speaker: 
Jure Zupan
Institution: 
Cincinnati U. & CERN
Location&Place: 

Audiovisual Room

Abstract: 

Solving the flavor problem of the Standard Model with a simple U(1)_H flavor symmetry naturally leads to an axion that solves the strong CP problem and constitutes a viable Dark Matter candidate. In this framework, the ratio of the axion mass and its coupling to photons is related to the SM fermion masses and predicted within a small range, as a direct result of the observed hierarchies in quark and charged lepton masses. The same hierarchies determine the axion couplings to fermions, making the framework very predictive and experimentally testable by future axion and precision flavor experiments