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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

Light pseudoscalar resonances that couple to the Standard Model via non-renormalizable operators, such as axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), generate contributions to the renormalization group evolution equations of couplings of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert

Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), very light spin-zero bosons with a two-photon coupling. ALPs can give rise to observable effects in very-high-energy astrophysics. Above roughly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Marco Roncadelli , Alessandro De Angelis , Giorgio Galanti

Light pseudoscalars, or axion like particles (ALPs), are much studied due to their potential relevance to the fields of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. The most relevant coupling of ALPs from the viewpoint of current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-19 L. H. C. Borges , A. G. Dias , A. F. Ferrari , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov

Conventional approaches to probing axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) typically rely on a coupling to photons. However, if this coupling is extremely weak, ALPs become invisible and are effectively decoupled from the Standard Model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Camila S. Machado , Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller , Ben A. Stefanek

D. Wouters and P. Brun in Phys. Rev. D 86, 043005 (2012) claim that an observable effect in the spectra of distant very-high-energy blazars arises as a consequence of oscillations of photons into axion-like particles (ALPs) in the presence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-27 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

Dark matter may consist of axion-like particles (ALPs). When polarized electromagnetic radiation passes through the dark-matter media, interaction with background ALPs affects the polarization of photons. The condensate of axionic dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 D. Davydov , Alexander Libanov

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) rotate the linear polarization of photons through the ALP-photon coupling and convert the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $E$-mode to the $B$-mode. We derive the relation between the ALP dynamics and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 Tomohiro Fujita , Yuto Minami , Kai Murai , Hiromasa Nakatsuka

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

The observation of a non-vanishing rotation of linear polarized laser light after passage through a strong magnetic field by the PVLAS collaboration has renewed the interest in light particles coupled to photons. Axions are a species of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joerg Jaeckel

Recently, we have used, pulsar polarisation datasets, on circular polarisation degree & linear polarisation position angle, to relate with well established theories, on ellipticity parameter and linear polarisation position angles, accrued…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Karam Chand , Subhayan Mandal

We study the propagation of light in the presence of a parity-violating coupling between photons and axion-like particles (ALPs). Naively, this interaction could lead to a split of light rays into two separate beams of different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-15 Diego Blas , Andrea Caputo , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Laura Sberna

We investigate how the photon polarization is affected by the interaction with axion-like particles (ALPs) in the rotating magnetic field of a neutron star (NS). Using quantum Boltzmann equations the study demonstrates that the periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei , Sabino Matarrese , Roberto Turolla

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 review the physics case for very weakly coupled ultralight particles beyond the Standard Model, in particular for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs): (i) the axionic solution of the strong CP problem and its embedding in well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-07 A. Ringwald

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can induce a birefringence effect that rotates the polarization angle of light, offering a probe of ultralight dark matter. We analyze archival near-infrared polarimetric data of the protoplanetary disk (PPD)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Kanako Narita , Tomohiro Fujita , Ryo Tazaki , Bunyo Hatsukade

While amongst the most luminous objects in the universe, many details regarding the inner structure of quasars remain unknown. One such area is the mechanism promoting increased polarisation in the broad absorption line troughs of certain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher A. Hales , Geraint F. Lewis

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) belong to a well motivated class of particles which are part of a more complete UV theory. In this work, we initiate and present the inclusion of such ALPs or the conventional axions in the Heavy Hadron Chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Namit Mahajan

We propose an experiment for detecting Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) based on the axion-photon interaction in the presence of a non-uniform magnetic field. The impact of virtual ALPs on the polarization of the photons inside a cavity is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Moslem Zarei , Soroush Shakeri , Mohammad Sharifian , Mehdi Abdi , David J. E. Marsh , Sabino Matarrese