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Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a feasible explanation for the observed lower TeV opacity of the Universe. If the anomaly TeV transparency is caused by ALPs, then the fluxes of distant extragalactic sources will be enhanced at photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Yun-Feng Liang , Xing-Fu Zhang , Ji-Gui Cheng , Hou-Dun Zeng , Yi-Zhong Fan , En-Wei Liang

Oscillations of photons into axion-like particles in a high-intensity laser field are investigated. Nonlinear QED effects are considered through the low energy behavior of the vacuum polarization tensor, which is derived from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-03 Selym Villalba-Chávez

We present new constraints on ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) through multi-epoch measurements of differential birefringence induced due to a coupling ($g_{a\gamma}$) between the ALP and electromagnetic fields. Broadband polarimetric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Shivani Deshmukh , Aritra Basu , Dominik J. Schwarz , Yuko Urakawa , Sui Ann Mao

In order to verify the existence of coherent orientations of quasars polarization vectors on very large scales, we have obtained new polarization measurements for a sample of quasars located in a given region of the three-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Hutsemekers , H. Lamy

Stellar energy loss arguments lead to strong constraints on the coupling $\phi \gamma \gamma$ of a light axion-like particle to two photons. Helioscopes, like CAST, are able to put competitive bounds. The PVLAS experiment has recently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduard Masso , Javier Redondo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons, natural in extensions of the Standard Model. Their interactions with ordinary matter and radiation are suppressed, making it challenging to detect them in laboratory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 S. V. Troitsky

New pseudoscalars, axion-like particles (ALPs), provide the exciting target for present and future collider-based experiments. Search for ALPs is performed in this paper via the $W^{+}W^{-}$ fusion process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Chong-Xing Yue , Han Wang , Yue-Qi Wang

Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated low-energy relics of high-energy extensions of the Standard Model, which interact with the known particles through higher-dimensional operators suppressed by the mass scale $\Lambda$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner , Marvin Schnubel , Andrea Thamm

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) with a sub-keV range mass are searched by using the light-shining-through-a-wall technique. A novel system is developed in which injected X rays are converted and reconverted by the Laue-case conversion within a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-26 T. Yamaji , K. Tamasaku , T. Namba , T. Yamazaki , Y. Seino

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

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

Axionlike particles (ALPs) can be produced in the Sun, and are considered viable candidates for the cosmological dark matter (DM). It can decay into two photons or interact with matter. We identify new inelastic channels of inverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 C. -P. Wu , C. -P. Liu , Greeshma C. , L. Singh , J. -W. Chen , H. -C. Chi , M. K. Pandey , H. T. Wong

In light-shining-through-walls experiments, axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are searched for by exposing an optically thick barrier to a laser beam. In a magnetic field, photons could convert into ALPs in front of the barrier and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Vedran Brdar , Dibya S. Chattopadhyay

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons that arise in many extensions of the Standard Model and are well-motivated dark matter candidates. Nearby massive stars in the late stages of stellar evolution provide a…

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can decay into two photons with a rest-frame frequency given by half of the ALP mass. This implies that ultra-violet searches can be used to investigate ALPs in the multi-eV mass range. We use archival data from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Elisa Todarello , Marco Regis

If the dark matter in the Universe is made of $\mu$eV axion-like particles (ALPs), then a rich phenomenology can emerge in connection to their stimulated decay into two photons. We discuss the ALP stimulated decay induced by electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Elisa Todarello , Francesca Calore , Marco Regis

We have obtained spectropolarimetric observations of the four images of the gravitationally lensed broad absorption line quasar H1413+117. The polarization of the microlensed image D is significantly different both in the continuum and in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-25 D. Hutsemékers , D. Sluse , L. Braibant , T. Anguita

Ambiguities in pseudoscalar-meson photoproduction, arising from incomplete experimental data, have analogs in pion-nucleon scattering. Amplitude ambiguities have important implications for the problems of amplitude extraction and resonance…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Greg Keaton , Ron Workman