The Hunt for the Axion

ABSTRACT
We review the physics case for the axion and discuss different methods to hunt for it in current and future experiments.

BIO
Andreas Ringwald is a research scientist at DESY, Hamburg. He studied physics and obtained his PhD at Heidelberg University. He was scientist at CERN before joining the DESY staff. He is a leading expert in both the theory and phenomenology of axions and other weakly-coupled hypothetical particles beyond the standard model. Among other things, he is one of the initiators of the ALPS and WISPDMX experiments at DESY and of the SHIPS helioscope at Hamburg Observatory. He has been the leader of the ALPS working group at DESY since 2013.

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