Speaker
Dr
Robert Ziegler
Description
Standard Model extensions with light axions are well-motivated by the observed Dark Matter abundance and the Peccei-Quinn solution to the Strong CP Problem. Such axions can have flavor-violating couplings to SM fermions at tree-level, which are predicted in scenarios where global flavor symmetries address the SM flavor puzzle. I will discuss how flavor-violating couplings allow for efficient axion production from the decays of SM particles, giving the opportunity to probe axion Dark Matter in precision flavor experiments, core-collapse supernovae and the early Universe.