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Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a common prediction of several extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics and could be detected through their coupling to photons, which enables ALP-photon conversions in external magnetic fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Francesco Schiavone , Leonardo Di Venere , Francesco Giordano

The existence of an axion-like particle (ALP) would induce anomalous scattering of light by light. This process can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider in central exclusive production of photon pairs in proton-proton collisions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Cristian Baldenegro , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Christophe Royon

Axion-like particles (ALP) can in principle be produced in very hot and dense astrophysical environments, escape from the extreme object where such conditions are met, and then be converted in gamma--rays in the magnetic fields intervening…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Fabio Iocco

The detection of very high-energy neutrinos by IceCube experiment supports the existence of a comparable gamma-ray counterpart from the same cosmic accelerators. Under the likely assumption that the sources of these particles are of…

The detection of very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays from the active galaxy M87 by LHAASO, showing a possible spectral hardening around $20$ TeV, motivates the search for new physics beyond standard emission models. One promising candidate is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 A. Pratts , D Avila Rojas , J. Serna-Franco , M. M. González , R. Alfaro

In this mini-review, possible manifestations of mixing between axion-like particles (ALPs) and energetic photons propagating over astronomical distances are considered. We discuss the evidence for the anomalous transparency of the Universe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-20 S. V. Troitsky

Extensions of the Standard Model of particles commonly predict the existence of axion(-like) particles (ALPs) that could be detected through their coupling to photons in external magnetic fields. This coupling could lead to modifications of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-11 M. Meyer , J. Conrad

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted in some well-motivated theories beyond the Standard Model. The TeV gamma-rays from active galactic nuclei (AGN) suffer attenuation by the pair production interactions with the cosmic background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-11 Guangbo Long , Siyu Chen , Shuo Xu , Hong-Hao Zhang

Hypothetical axion-like particles (ALPs) are of interest because of their potential to act as dark matter or to reveal information about yet undiscovered fundamental constituents of matter. Such particles can be created when photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Denys Malyshev , Lidiia Zadorozhna , Yuriy Bidasyuk , Andrea Santangelo , Oleg Ruchayskiy

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are a generic, calculable, and well motivated extension of the Standard Model with far reaching phenomenology. ALPs that couple only to hypercharge represent one subset of such models, coupling the ALP to both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Noah Steinberg , James D. Wells

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) with a sub-keV range mass are searched by using the light-shining-through-a-wall technique. A novel system is developed in which injected X rays are converted and reconverted by the Laue-case conversion within a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-26 T. Yamaji , K. Tamasaku , T. Namba , T. Yamazaki , Y. Seino

We study ALP-photon-conversion within strong inhomogeneous electromagnetic fields as provided by contemporary high-intensity laser systems. We observe that probe photons traversing the focal spot of a superposition of Gaussian beams of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Babette Döbrich , Holger Gies

X-ray telescopes are an exceptional tool for searching for new fundamental physics. In particular, X-ray observations have already placed world-leading bounds on the interaction between photons and axion-like particles (ALPs). ALPs are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Francesca Day , Sven Krippendorf

A fraction of AGN producing VHE gamma-rays are located in galaxy clusters. The magnetic field present in the intra-cluster medium would lead to conversions of VHE photons into axion-like particles (ALPs), which are a generic prediction of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Dieter Horns , Luca Maccione , Manuel Meyer , Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino , Marco Roncadelli

Light axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple to two photons are allowed in a number of proposed extensions to the Standard Model of elementary particles. Of particular interest from a theoretical and observational standpoint is the energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 P. L. Slocum , O. K. Baker , J. L. Hirshfield , Y. Jiang , G. Kazakevitch , S. Kazakov , M. A. LaPointe , A. T. Malagon , A. J. Martin , S. Shchelkunov , A. Szymkowiak

Axion like particles (ALPs) are fundamental pseudo scalar particles with properties similar to Axions which are a well-known extension of the standard model to solve the strong CP problem in Quantum Chromodynamics. ALPs can oscillate into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-30 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns

Axion-like particles (ALPs), hypothetical extensions of the Standard Model, can convert into photons in an external magnetic field. Two recent studies~\cite{Todarello:2023ptf, Ruz:2024gkl} explored the phenomenology of ALP-photon conversion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Elisa Todarello

A polarized gamma ray emission spread over a sufficiently wide energy band from a strongly magnetized astrophysical object like gamma ray bursts (GRBs) offers an opportunity to test the hypothesis of axion like particles (ALPs). Based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-04 Andre Rubbia , Alexander Sakharov

Axion-like particles (ALPs), relatively light (pseudo-)scalars coupled to two gauge bosons, are a common feature of many extensions of the Standard Model. Up to now there has been a gap in the sensitivity to such particles in the MeV to 10…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Joerg Jaeckel , Michael Spannowsky

Very high energy gamma-rays are expected to be absorbed by the extragalactic background light over cosmological distances via the process of electron-positron pair production. Recent observations of cosmologically distant gamma-ray emitters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Melanie Simet , Dan Hooper , Pasquale D. Serpico