Speaker
Rafael Alves Batista
Description
Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical entities often invoked to solve various problems in particle physics and cosmology. They are one of the most promising candidates to explain the elusive dark matter. A way to search for ALPs is through their effects on photons. In the presence of external magnetic fields, ALPs and photons can convert into one another, leading to measurable signals. Here we present results of Monte Carlo simulations of ALP-photon interconversion in magnetised environments using the ALPinist plug-in for the CRPropa framework. We illustrate its applications in the context of TeV gamma-ray propagation over cosmological distances.
