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Magnetic fields in extragalactic space between galaxy clusters may induce conversions between photons and axion-like particles (ALPs), thereby shielding the photons from absorption on the extragalactic background light. For TeV gamma rays,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-13 A. Kartavtsev , G. Raffelt , H. Vogel

The cumulative emission of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) from all past core-collapse supernovae (SNe) would lead to a diffuse flux with energies ${\mathcal O}(50)$ MeV. We use this to constrain ALPs featuring couplings to photons and to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-03 Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Joerg Jaeckel , Alessandro Mirizzi

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…

Heavy axion-like particles (ALPs), with masses up to a few 100 keV and coupled with photons can be efficiently produced in stellar plasmas, contributing to a significant energy-loss. This argument has been applied to helium burning stars in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Giuseppe Lucente , Oscar Straniero , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

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

Protoneutron stars, highly compact objects formed in the core of exploding supernovae (SNe), are powerful sources of axion-like particles (ALPs). In the SN core, ALPs are dominantly produced via nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung and pion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-10 Francisco R. Candón , Sougata Ganguly , Maurizio Giannotti , Tanmoy Kumar , Alessandro Lella , Federico Mescia

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

Axionlike particles (ALPs), hypothetical particles beyond the Standard Model, are considered as promising dark matter candidates. ALPs can convert into photons and vice versa in a magnetic field via the Primakoff effect, potentially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Zhi-Qi Guo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Lei Wu , Zi-Qing Xia

We derive updated cosmological bounds on light axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to leptons or photons, using a full phase-space treatment of their production from the primordial thermal plasma. The ALP phase-space distribution, obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Nicola Barbieri , Luca Caloni , Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Luca Visinelli

The conversion of CMB photons to axions (or axion-like particles (ALPs)) can lead to a unique spectral distortion in the temperature and polarization sky which can be explored in upcoming CMB experiments. In this work we have developed a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

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), if exist in nature, are expected to mix with photons in the presence of an external magnetic field. The energy range of photons which undergo strong mixing with ALPs depends on the ALP mass, on its coupling with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-13 Olga Mena , Soebur Razzaque

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) may undergo mixing with photons in the presence of astrophysical magnetic fields, leading to alterations in the observed high energy $\gamma$-ray spectra. In this study, we investigate the ALP-photon oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-06 Lin-Qing Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Jun-Guang Guo , Wenbin Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

We revise the bound from the supernova SN1987A on the coupling of ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) to photons. In a core-collapse supernova, ALPs would be emitted via the Primakoff process, and eventually convert into gamma rays in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-09 Alexandre Payez , Carmelo Evoli , Tobias Fischer , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi , Andreas Ringwald

Well-motivated extensions of the standard model predict ultra-light and fundamental pseudo-scalar particles (e.g., axions or axion-like particles: ALPs). Similarly to the Primakoff-effect for axions, ALPs can mix with photons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns

We present a novel approach to investigating axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) by studying their potential conversion into X-rays within the Sun's atmospheric magnetic field. Utilizing high-sensitivity data from the Nuclear…

The detection of very high-energy neutrinos by IceCube experiment supports the existence of a comparable gamma-ray counterpart from the same cosmic accelerators. Under the likely assumption that the sources of these particles are of…

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

Transformation of CMB photons into light pseudoscalar particles at post big bang nucleosynthesis epoch is considered. Using the present day value of a large scale magnetic field to estimate it at earlier cosmological epochs, the oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-16 Damian Ejlli , Alexander D. Dolgov