Axion mass and the topology of high-temperature QCD

  • Event Date: 2020-12-17
  • Particle/String/Cosmology
  • Speaker: Prof. Ting-Wai Chiu (NTU, ASIoP, NTNU)  /  Host: Prof. Chong-Sun Chu (NTHU)
    Place: Lecture Room A of NCTS, 4F, 3rd General Building, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.

Axion is a promising candidate for the cold dark matter, which is originated from the Peccei-Quinn mechanism for resolving the strong CP problem in QCD.

To determine the evolution of the axion mass and its density from the early universe (at a very high temperature) to the present one at ~2.7 degree Kelvin, it requires the input of the QCD topological susceptibility for all temperatures. 
For the crucial intermediate temperatures (150 MeV < T < 600 MeV), topological susceptibility can only be reliably determined non-perturbatively with lattice QCD. 
In this talk, I present preliminary results of the first determination of topological susceptibility in lattice QCD with physical (u,d,s,c) domain-wall quarks, for the temperatures in the range, 0 < T < 550 MeV. 


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