COSMIC WISPers is a COST Action CA21106 (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21106/) focusses on very weakly interacting slim (m<GeV) particles (WISPs) which emerge in several extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The aim of this Action is an exhaustive study of these WISPs, notably axions, axion-like particles and dark photons, ranging from their theoretical underpinning, over their indirect observational consequences in astrophysics, to their search at colliders and beam-dump and their direct detection in laboratory experiments.
The first General Meeting of the COSMIC WISPers Action [https://agenda.infn.it/event/34125/] took place in Bari (Italy) from 5th to 8th September 2023. The objective of the meeting was to review the status of the activities performed by the different Working Groups and to discuss the further directions of investigations. There were plenary sessions and 4 parallel sessions corresponding to the different Working Groups:
• WG1: Theory and Model Building
• WG2: Dark Matter and Cosmology
• WG3: Astrophysics
• WG4: Direct Searches
After the General Meeting, the COST Action CA21106 1st Training School was held in Lecce (Italy) (https://agenda.infn.it/event/34190/) from 11st to 14th September 2023. The goal was to start training a generation of young scientists in the interdisciplinary expertise on WISPs, ranging from theoretical and experimental approaches to multi-messenger astroparticle physics and cosmology.
There were four lectures on different topics corresponding to the Working Groups 1—4 and several students talks.
Editorial Board
Pierluca Carenza (pierluca.carenza@fysik.su.se)
Stockholm University, Sweden
Valentina Danieli (vdanieli@sissa.it)
SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Raffaele Di Vora (divora@pd.infn.it)
INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy
Alessandro Mirizzi (alessandro.mirizzi@ba.infn.it)
Bari University & INFN Bari, Italy
Daniele Montanino (daniele.montanino@le.infn.it)
Lecce University and INFN Lecce, Italy
Mario Reig (mario.reiglopez@physics.ox.ac.uk)
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Alessio Rettaroli (alessio.rettaroli@lnf.infn.it)
INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy
Ville Vaskonen (ville.vaskonen@pd.infn.it)
Padova University and INFN Padova, Italy
| Sessions |
|---|
| Wg1 |
| Wg2 |
| Wg3 |
| Wg4 |
| Training School Lectures |
| Training School Talks |
| Wg1 |
| Out of the dark: WISPs in String Theory and the Early Universe PoS(COSMICWISPers)001 pdf |
| Uncovering axion and BSM CP violations with EDMs PoS(COSMICWISPers)002 pdf |
| Prospects to scrutinise or smash SM*A*S*H PoS(COSMICWISPers)003 pdf |
| Axions and Festina Lente PoS(COSMICWISPers)006 pdf |
| Testing BSM Physics with Gravitational Waves PoS(COSMICWISPers)007 pdf |
| Low-scale leptogenesis with Dirac phase CP-violation PoS(COSMICWISPers)008 pdf |
| Wg2 |
| Axion Star Explosions and the Reionization History of the Universe PoS(COSMICWISPers)012 pdf |
| Probing ultralight and degenerate dark matter with galactic dynamics PoS(COSMICWISPers)014 pdf |
| Birefringence in CMB anisotropies due to cosmological pseudoscalar fields PoS(COSMICWISPers)016 pdf |
| Photon to axion conversion during BBN PoS(COSMICWISPers)017 pdf |
| Cosmological defects PoS(COSMICWISPers)018 pdf |
| Radiation from Axion Strings with Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Periodic and Burst Signals PoS(COSMICWISPers)019 pdf |
| Wg3 |
| The Growth and Evolution of Axion Clouds around Pulsars PoS(COSMICWISPers)022 pdf |
| ALPs, high-energy gamma-rays and magnetic fields PoS(COSMICWISPers)023 pdf |
| Formation of ultralight dark matter solar halos PoS(COSMICWISPers)024 pdf |
| Glowing Axion Stars at Radio Frequencies PoS(COSMICWISPers)026 pdf |
| Wg4 |
| CAST and more than CAST; A Dark Sector Probe for 20+ Years PoS(COSMICWISPers)030 pdf |
| Status of the VMB@CERN experiment PoS(COSMICWISPers)032 pdf |
| Axion-like particle searches at the LHC PoS(COSMICWISPers)034 pdf |
| Probing the Dark Sector with NA64 and POKER at CERN SPS PoS(COSMICWISPers)036 pdf |
| High energy resolution x-ray detectors for IAXO: advantages in pre- and post-discovery phases PoS(COSMICWISPers)038 pdf |
| Training School Lectures |
| Axion theory and model building PoS(COSMICWISPers)039 pdf |
| Cosmology of axion dark matter PoS(COSMICWISPers)040 pdf |
| Astrophysical Axion Bounds: The 2024 Edition PoS(COSMICWISPers)041 pdf |
| Training School Talks |
| In search of new particles with PADME PoS(COSMICWISPers)043 pdf |
| Axion Dark Matter Simulations with Adaptive Mesh Refinement PoS(COSMICWISPers)044 pdf |
| Using gravitational waves to detect axion miniclusters and axion stars PoS(COSMICWISPers)046 pdf |
| Axion field tomography: cosmic birefringence from the epochs of recombination and reionization PoS(COSMICWISPers)047 pdf |
| Supernova bounds on nucleonphilic ALPs PoS(COSMICWISPers)048 pdf |
| Constraining Ultra-Light Scalar Dark Matter with Pulsars PoS(COSMICWISPers)049 pdf |
| Massive Gravitons in Very Special Relativity: Theory and Observations PoS(COSMICWISPers)050 pdf |
| Simulations for direct dark matter searches using ALPS II's TES detection system PoS(COSMICWISPers)055 pdf |
| Plasmonic resonant detection of WIMP PoS(COSMICWISPers)057 pdf |