Seminar: ‘The Hunt for Multiple Axions’

Title: ‘The Hunt for Multiple Axions’

Speaker: Arturo de Giorgi (University of Durham).

Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00

Abstract: Axions and axion-like particles may arise in Nature as a spectrum rather than as a single field. Such a scenario naturally emerges in string-inspired constructions, as well as in reasonably simple bottom-up extensions of single axion models. In such multi-axion scenarios, new signal features arise, and recasting of existing experimental bounds from single-axion constraints becomes generally non-trivial. This motivates a closer look at how laboratory axion searches are impacted when multiple states contribute. In this talk, I will first briefly introduce bulk axions in extra dimensions as a concrete framework that naturally generates multiple modes, and highlight some of the phenomenological subtleties that follow. I will then present general results for multi-axions–photon oscillations, showing how coherence and interference can either enhance or suppress signals,  with direct implications for light-shining-through-a-wall experiments and beyond.