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In this paper, we derive the upper bounds on the coupling of axion-like particles (ALPs) with photon as a function of the mass by considering axion-photon conversion in the Crab Nebula. Previous studies have not considered the influence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Kazunori Kohri , Haruki Takahashi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles and compelling candidates for cold dark matter. Their existence could be probed through their conversions into photons in the presence of magnetic fields. In this work, we explore the…

An intriguing possibility to partially circumvent extragalactic background light (EBL) absorption in very-high-energy (VHE) observations of blazars is that photons convert into axion-like particles (ALPs) $\gamma \to a$ inside or close to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-11 F. Tavecchio , G. Galanti , M. Roncadelli

The resonant conversion, within the inter-galactic medium, of regular photons into dark photons amplifies the anisotropy observed in the CMB, thereby imposing stringent constraints on the existence of light dark photons. In this study, we…

Axion production due to photon-axion mixing in tangled magnetic field(s) prior to recombination epoch and magnetic field damping can generate cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectral distortions. In particular, contribution of both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Damian Ejlli

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 propose using the upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) ground based experiments to detect the signal of ALPs (Axion like particles) interacting with magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. The conversion between CMB photons and ALPs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-02 Suvodip Mukherjee , David N. Spergel , Rishi Khatri , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Production of axionlike particles (ALPs) by primordial magnetic fields may have significant impacts on cosmology. We discuss the production of ALPs in the presence of the primordial magnetic fields. We find a region of the ALP mass and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-09 Kohei Kamada , Yuichiro Nakai

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model and are among the well-motivated candidates for dark matter. In the presence of magnetic fields of galaxy clusters, Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Harsh Mehta , Anaya Dixit , Suvodip Mukherjee , Joseph Silk

Axions seem ubiquitous in string theories and some of them may be produced non-thermally by heavy scalar decays, contributing to dark radiation. We study various cosmological effects of photons produced from the axionic dark radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Tetsutaro Higaki , Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi

Many extensions of the Standard Model include axions or axion-like particles (ALPs). Here we study ALP to photon conversion in the magnetic field of the Milky Way and starburst galaxies. By modelling the effects of the coherent and random…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-26 Francesca V. Day

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 are dark matter candidates motivated by the Peccei-Quinn mechanism and also occur in effective field theories where their masses and photon couplings are independent. We estimate the dispersion of circularly polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Günter Sigl , Pranjal Trivedi

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can oscillate to photons and vice versa in electromagnetic fields. The photon-ALP oscillation provides an attractive solution to the apparent transparency of the Universe to TeV photons. The allowed parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Yun-Feng Liang , Cun Zhang , Zi-Qing Xia , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

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

The high-energy Universe is potentially a great laboratory for searching new light bosons such as axion-like particles (ALPs). Cosmic sources are indeed the scene of violent phenomena that involve strong magnetic field and/or very long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Pierre Brun

Resonant conversion of high energy gravitons into photons in large scale cosmological magnetic fields at the post recombination epoch is considered. It is shown that the probability of the resonance photon production is much higher than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-10 Alexander D. Dolgov , Damian Ejlli

Dark matter energy injection in the early universe modifies both the ionization history and the temperature of the intergalactic medium. In this work, we improve the CMB bounds on sub-keV dark matter and extend previous bounds from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-30 Francesco Capozzi , Ricardo Z. Ferreira , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena