High-energy photons may oscillate with axion-like particles (ALPs) when they propagate through the Milky Way's magnetic field, resulting in an alteration in the observed photon energy spectrum. The ultra-high energy gamma-ray spectra, measured by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) up to O(1)PeV, provide a promising opportunity to investigate the ALP-photon oscillation effect. In this study, we utilize the gamma-ray spectra of four Galactic sources measured by LHAASO, including the Crab Nebula, LHAASO J2226+6057, LHAASO J1908+0621, and LHAASO J1825-1326, to explore this effect. We employ the CLs method to set constraints on the ALP parameters. Combing the observations of the four sources, our analysis reveals that the ALP-photon coupling gaγ is constrained to be smaller than 1.4×10−10GeV−1 for the ALP mass of ∼4×10−7eV at the 95\% C.L. By combing the observations of the Crab Nebula from LHAASO and other experiments, we find that the ALP-photon coupling could be set to be about 7.2×10−11GeV−1 for the ALP mass ∼4×10−7eV , which is in close proximity to the CAST constraint.
@article{arxiv.2401.01829,
title = {Constraints on Axion-like Particles from the Observation of Galactic Sources by LHAASO},
author = {Jun Li and Xiao-Jun Bi and Lin-Qing Gao and Xiaoyuan Huang and Run-Min Yao and Peng-Fei Yin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.01829},
year = {2024}
}