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We compute the flux of axions from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Axions can be produced in the accretion disk by the Compton, Bremsstrahlung and Primakoff processes. We find that the axion luminosity due to these processes is negligible in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-27 Pankaj Jain , Subhayan Mandal

Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

The hot interiors of massive stars in the later stages of their evolution provide an ideal place for the production of heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) with mass up to O(100 keV) range. We show that a fraction of these ALPs could stream…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 James H. Buckley , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Francesc Ferrer , Takuya Okawa

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model (SM) that appear in many new physics scenarios, with masses spanning a broad range. In this work, we systematically study the production and detection prospects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Shou-shan Bao , Yang Ma , Yongcheng Wu , Keping Xie , Hong Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken global symmetries in high-energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This makes them a prime target for future experiments aiming to discover new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Martin Bauer , Mathias Heiles , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant enigmas in modern cosmology. Axion-like particles (ALPs), as well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter, can undergo radiative decay into photon pairs, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Wen-Qing Guo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear from spontaneous global symmetry breaking in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we find bounds on ALP ($a$) model parameters at the LHC from the ALP production associated with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Javad Ebadi , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We present constraints on the nature of axions and axionlike particles (ALPs) by analyzing gamma--ray data from neutron stars using the Fermi Large Area Telescope. In addition to axions solving the strong CP problem of particle physics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 Bijan Berenji , Jennifer Gaskins , Manuel Meyer

We discuss axion-like particles (ALPs) within the framework of Higgs Effective Field Theory, targeting instances of close alignment of ALP physics with a custodial singlet character of the Higgs boson. We tension constraints arising from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-22 Anisha , Supratim Das Bakshi , Christoph Englert , Panagiotis Stylianou

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields. This effect may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as AGNs. Here we carry out a detailed study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-31 M. A. Sanchez-Conde , D. Paneque , E. Bloom , F. Prada , A. Dominguez

Axions and axion-like-particles (ALPs) are characterised by their two-photon coupling, which entails so-called photon-ALP oscillations as photons propagate through a magnetic field. These oscillations lead to distinctive signatures in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-11 M. Kachelriess , J. Tjemsland

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a broad class of pseudo-scalar bosons that generically arise from broken symmetries in extensions of the standard model. In many scenarios, ALPs can mix with photons in regions with high magnetic fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 Sunniva Jacobsen , Tim Linden , Katherine Freese

The physics of axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) is enjoying an incredibly productive period, with many new experimental proposals, theoretical idea, and original astrophysical and cosmological arguments which help the search effort.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Maurizio Giannotti

We derive production yields for massive pseudo-scalar and scalar axion-like-particles (ALPs), through non-linear Compton scattering of an electron in the background of low- and high-intensity electromagnetic fields. In particular, we focus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 Barry M. Dillon , Ben King

If axion-like particles (ALPs) exist, photons can convert to ALPs on passage through regions containing magnetic fields. The magnetised intracluster medium of large galaxy clusters provides a region that is highly efficient at ALP-photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Linhan Chen , Joseph P. Conlon

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a compelling avenue for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model. In astrophysical magnetized plasmas an ALP-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma}$ induces energy-dependent oscillations in the photon survival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Yu Zhou , Jiejia Liu , Volodymyr Takhistov , Kazuhisa Mitsuda

We study cross correlations between line intensity and weak lensing maps to search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Radiative decay of eV-mass ALPs can contribute to cosmic background emissions at optical and infrared wavelengths. Line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Masato Shirasaki

The mixing of photons with axion-like particles (ALPs) in the large-scale magnetic field $B$ changes the polarization angle of a linearly polarized photon beam from active galactic nuclei in radio galaxies as it propagates over cosmological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-13 D. Horns , L. Maccione , A. Mirizzi , M. Roncadelli

We investigate the prospects for discovering axion-like particles (ALPs) via a light-by-light (LBL) scattering at two colliders, the future circular collider (FCC-ee) and circular electron-positron collider (CEPC). The promising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Hua-Ying Zhang , Chong-Xing Yue , Yu-Chen Guo , Shuo Yang

We review the physics of ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) as dark matter candidates and the experimental strategies used to search for them with precision and quantum technologies. In the ultralight regime, the enormous occupation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Sreemanti Chakraborti
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