Inter-COST Grant for Federico Urban and his team

Cosmic WISPers member Federico Urban and his team have just been awarded a Czech Inter-COST grant to work on spin-2 WISPs over the next two years. Massive spin-2 fields typically arise in certain extensions of General Relativity, such as bigravity or higher-dimensional gravity; some of these spin-2 fields can be viable dark matter candidates, and can have masses in the WISP range. The focus of the project will be to understand if and how current astrophysical/cosmological WISP production mechanisms and WISP laboratory detection techniques can be adapted for spin-2 WISPs, what new techniques could be used to search specifically for spin-2 WISPs, and how to distinguish them from their spin-0 and spin-1 counterparts. The team will include fellow Action members Alex Vikman, Iggy Sawicki, Sabir Ramazanov and the students Georg Trenkler and Pavel Kůs and is based out of CEICO, Institute of Physics (FZU), Prague.

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  • CA21106 Input for the European strategy on particle physics, arXiv:2503.2043 [hep-ph] 
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