26–30 May 2025
Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano
Europe/Rome timezone

Revisited axion contribution to dark radiation using momentum-dependent evolution

28 May 2025, 15:00
20m
Auditorium (Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano)

Auditorium

Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano

Via Altinate 71, Padova

Speaker

Maxim Laletin (University of Warsaw)

Description

Axions can be produced via the interactions in the thermal plasma
of the early Universe and their contribution to dark radiation can
modify the cosmological observables and constrain the axion
couplings to SM particles. In my talk I am going to outline an
approach to calculate the axion cosmological abundance that goes
beyond the approximations widely used in the literature on the
topic and demonstrate how it affects the bounds on axion couplings
on the example of axion interactions with leptons.

Author

Maxim Laletin (University of Warsaw)

Co-author

Prof. Marcin Badziak (University of Warsaw)

Presentation materials