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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

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

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

We examine the resonant conversion of axion-like particle (ALP) or dark photon to the electromagnetic photon in the early Universe, which takes place due to the ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations in background dark photon gauge fields. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Kiwoon Choi , Hyeonseok Seong , Seokhoon Yun

We investigate the prospect of an alternative laboratory-based search for the coupling of axions and axion-like particles to photons. Here, the collision of two laser beams resonantly produces axions, and a signal photon is detected after…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-18 K. A. Beyer , G. Marocco , R. Bingham , G. Gregori

Axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in the core of a magnetar will convert to photons in the magnetosphere, leading to possible signatures in the hard X-ray band. We perform a detailed calculation of the ALP-to-photon conversion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-15 Jean-François Fortin , Kuver Sinha

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a common prediction of certain theories beyond the Standard Model and couple to photons in the presence of external magnetic fields. As a consequence, photon-ALP conversions could lead to an enhancement of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-09 Manuel Meyer

Axion-like particles (ALPs) have been searched for with a quasi-parallel stimulated resonant photon-photon collider sensitive to the sub-eV mass range by focusing two-color near-infrared pulse lasers into a vacuum. In this work, we have…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are light, neutral, pseudo-scalar bosons predicted by several extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics -- such as the String Theory -- and are supposed to interact primarily only with two photons. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-22 Giorgio Galanti

Axionlike particles (ALPs) are a common prediction of theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics that could explain the entirety of the cold dark matter. These particles could be detected through their mixing with photons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Meyer

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

Axion-photon conversion is a prime mechanism to detect axion-like particles that share a coupling to the photon. We point out that in the vicinity of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, magnetars, the effective photon mass receives…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-10 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Josef Pradler , Anastasia Sokolenko

We establish strong gravitational lens systems as robust probes of axion-like particles (ALPs) -- a candidate for dark matter. A tiny interaction of photons with ALPs induces birefringence. Multiple images of gravitationally lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Aritra Basu , Jishnu Goswami , Dominik J. Schwarz , Yuko Urakawa

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

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) are the focus of intense current research. We analyze photon-ALP conversion in the context of relativistic jet models of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) for more than 100 sources. Contrary to previous claims, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-26 Nicola Bassan , Marco Roncadelli

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

We use the first observation of Betelgeuse in hard $X$-rays to perform a novel search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Betelgeuse is not expected to be a standard source of $X$-rays, but light ALPs produced in the stellar core could be…

The growing interest in axion-like particles (ALPs) stems from the fact that they provide successful theoretical explanations of physics phenomena, from the anomaly of the CP-symmetry conservation in strong interactions to the observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Ivana Batković , Alessandro De Angelis , Michele Doro , Marina Manganaro

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…