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A future Galactic Supernova (SN) explosion can lead to a gamma-ray signal induced by ultralight Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) thermally produced in the SN core and converted into high-energy photons in the Galactic magnetic field. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Christopher Eckner , Maurizio Giannotti , Giuseppe Lucente , Alessandro Mirizzi , Francesco Sivo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to nucleons can be efficiently produced in core-collapse supernovae (SNe) and then, if they couple to photons, convert into gamma rays in cosmic magnetic fields, generating short gamma-ray bursts. Though…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Francesca Lecce , Alessandro Lella , Giuseppe Lucente , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

Axion-Like-Particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudo-scalar particles actively searched as light dark matter candidates. The coupling of ALPs to photons can give rise to distinctive spectral features in the observed gamma-ray spectrum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Cervane Grimaud , Denys Malyshev , Emmanuel Moulin

The Axion Like Particle (ALP) is a hypothetical pseudo-scalar particle beyond the Standard Model, with a compelling possible connection to dark matter and early universe physics. ALPs can be converted into photons via interactions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Ryo Yamamoto , Noriko Y. Yamasaki , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Masahiro Takada

Very high energy (VHE, energy >~ 100 GeV) {\gamma}-rays originating from extragalactic sources interact with low energy photons of background radiation fields and produce electron-positron pairs. Alternatively, in the presence of ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-28 Manuel Meyer , Dieter Horns , Luca Maccione , Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino , Marco Roncadelli

Axions or more generally axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo-scalar particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM) and considered as highly viable candidates for dark matter (DM) in the universe. If…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-25 Ahmed Ayad , Geoff Beck

Large-scale extragalactic magnetic fields may induce conversions between very-high-energy photons and axionlike particles (ALPs), thereby shielding the photons from absorption on the extragalactic background light. However, in simplified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-07 Daniele Montanino , Franco Vazza , Alessandro Mirizzi , Matteo Viel

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

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

In this work we revisit five different point sources within or behind galaxy clusters in order to constrain the coupling constant between axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons. We use three distinct machine learning (ML) techniques and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Simon Schallmoser , Sven Krippendorf , Francesca Chadha-Day , Jochen Weller

High energy gamma-rays propagating in external magnetic fields may convert into axion-like particles (ALPs). In this case, the observed gamma-ray spectra are modified by the resulting energy-dependent conversion probability. In this study,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-13 Qixin Yu , Dieter Horns

Very-high energy photons emitted by distant cosmic sources are absorbed on the extragalactic background light (EBL) during their propagation. This effect can be characterized in terms of a photon transfer function at Earth. The presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino

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

Axions or more generally axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo-scalar particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM) and considered as viable candidates for dark matter (DM) in the universe. If they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Ahmed Ayad , Geoff Beck

As very high energy (~100 GeV) gamma rays travel over cosmological distances, their flux is attenuated through interactions with the extragalactic background light. Observations of distant gamma ray sources at energies between ~200 GeV and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-31 Alexander V. Belikov , Lisa Goodenough , Dan Hooper

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), which are very light neutral spin zero elusive particles primarily interacting with two photons and predicted by superstring and superbrane theories, have come to help by solving two distinct problems about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-20 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli , Fabrizio Tavecchio

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

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

Photons may convert into axion like particles and back in the magnetic field of various astrophysical objects, including active galaxies, clusters of galaxies, intergalactic space and the Milky Way. This is a potential explanation for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-20 Malcolm Fairbairn , Timur Rashba , Sergey Troitsky