Anomaly Detection for High Energy Physics (AD4HEP) Workshop

Hunting axions with the James Webb Space Telescope

Not scheduled

15m

Nevis Science Center (Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories)

Early Career Lightning Talk Early Career Session: Anomaly Detection in HEP and Beyond

Speaker

Elena Pinetti (Flatiron Institute/Simons Foundation)

Description

Axions with a mass around 1 eV can decay into near-infrared photons. Utilising blank-sky observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, I search for a narrow emission line due to decaying dark matter and derive leading constraints on the axion-photon coupling in the eV-scale mass range.