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We have recently shown that axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) may emit an observable stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background when they begin to oscillate in the early universe. In this note, we identify the regions of ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-23 Camila S. Machado , Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller , Ben A. Stefanek

The axion-like particle (ALP)-photon mixing in the magnetic field around $\gamma$-ray sources or along the line-of-sight could induce oscillation between photons and ALPs, which then causes irregularities in the $\gamma$-ray spectra. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Cun Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Shang Li , Neng-Hui Liao , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Zhong-Zhou Ren

Sub-eV axion-like particles (ALPs) have been searched for by focusing two-color near-infrared pulse lasers into a vacuum along a common optical axis. Within the focused quasi-parallel collision system created by combining a creation field…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical bosons which may couple with photons. Since many ALPs can be emitted from hot and dense astrophysical plasma, nearby supernovae (SNe) are a possible probe into their properties including the ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Kanji Mori

Axion-like particles (ALPs) belong to a class of new pseudoscalar particles that generically couple to photons, opening the possibility of oscillations from photons into ALPs in an external magnetic field. Having witnessed the turbulence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-14 Denis Wouters , Pierre Brun

Ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates introduced by theories beyond the standard model. However, the constraints on the existence of ALPs through existing laboratory experiments are hindered by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-01 Min Jiang , Haowen Su , Antoine Garcon , Xinhua Peng , Dmitry Budker

We explore the possibility of searching for axionlike particle (ALP) by $ep$ collisions via the subprocess $e^{-}\gamma \rightarrow e^{-}a \rightarrow e^{-}\gamma\gamma$. Sensitivities to the effective ALP-photon coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-18 Chong-Xing Yue , Ming-Ze Liu , Yu-Chen Guo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are very light, neutral, spin zero bosons predicted by many theories which try to complete the standard model of elementary particles. ALPs interact primarily with two photons and can generate photon-ALP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-09 Giorgio Galanti

We examine high-density axion clusters under gravitational compression. These are transient events in which the majority of axions are rapidly converted into photons, with some configurations producing photon signals with distinctive and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Liang Chen , Thomas W. Kephart

Presented is the search for anomalous Higgs boson decays into two axion-like particles (ALPs) using the full Run 2 data set of 140 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-18 ATLAS Collaboration

A brief review of light dark matter particles and their spectroscopy is presented, specifically aimed at understanding the interaction mechanisms of axion and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with matter and an interim proposal and some ideas…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-02 Masroor H. S. Bukhari

Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to nucleons can be efficiently produced in the interior of protoneutron stars (PNS) during supernova (SN) explosions. If these ALPs are also coupled to photons they can convert into gamma rays in the…

Oscillations from high energy photons into light pseudoscalar particles in an external magnetic field are expected to occur in some extensions of the standard model. It is usually assumed that those axionlike particles (ALPs) could produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-13 Denis Wouters , Pierre Brun

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

We demonstrate that the scatter in the luminosity relations of astrophysical objects can be used to search for axion-like-particles (ALPs). This analysis is applied to observations of active galactic nuclei, where we find evidence strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-30 Clare Burrage , Anne-Christine Davis , Douglas J. Shaw

There are broadly three channels to probe axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in the laboratory: through their subsequent decay to Standard Model (SM) particles, their scattering with SM particles, or their subsequent conversion to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-20 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

Hypothetical oscillations of probe photons into axion-like particles might be revealed by exploiting the strong fields of high-intensity laser pulses. Considering an arbitrary plane-wave background, we determine the polarization tensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Tobias Podszus , Carsten Müller

We revisit the theory and constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) interacting with leptons. We clarify some subtleties in the constraints on ALP parameter space and find several new opportunities for ALP detection. We identify a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-23 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Jeff A. Dror , Stefania Gori

It was recently pointed out that very energetic subclasses of supernovae (SNe), like hypernovae and superluminous SNe, might host ultra-strong magnetic fields in their core. Such fields may catalyze the production of feebly interacting…

We consider the search for axion-like particles (ALPs) by using time series data of the polarization angle of the light. If the condensation of an ALP plays the role of dark matter, the polarization plane of the light oscillates as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 So Chigusa , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama