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We establish strong gravitational lens systems as robust probes of axion-like particles (ALPs) -- a candidate for dark matter. A tiny interaction of photons with ALPs induces birefringence. Multiple images of gravitationally lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Aritra Basu , Jishnu Goswami , Dominik J. Schwarz , Yuko Urakawa

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken global symmetries in high-energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This makes them a prime target for future experiments aiming to discover new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Martin Bauer , Mathias Heiles , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

Axion-like particles (ALPs) emerge in many extensions of the Standard Model as pseudo-Goldstone bosons of a spontaneously broken global symmetry. Understanding their phenomenology in high-energy collisions is crucial for optimizing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-04 Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia , Felix Kahlhoefer , Maksym Ovchynnikov , Andrii Zaporozhchenko

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

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) have gained immense attention in searches for beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics. Experiments searching for axions leverage their predicted couplings to Standard Model (SM) particles to look for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Tanmoy Kumar , N. P. S. Mithun , Subhendra Mohanty , Sourov Roy , B. S. Bharath Saiguhan , Santosh Vadawale

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear in various new physics models with spontaneous global symmetry breaking. When the ALP mass is in the range of MeV to GeV, the cosmology and astrophysics bounds are so far quite weak. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Jie Ren , Daohan Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Mengchao Zhang

We propose a scheme for laser cooling of negatively charged molecules. We briefly summarise the requirements for such laser cooling and we identify a number of potential candidates. A detailed computation study with C$\_2^-$, the most…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Pauline Yzombard , Mehdi Hamamda , Sebastian Gerber , Michael Doser , Daniel Comparat

A collection of modern, field-theoretical equations of state is applied to the investigation of cooling properties of compact stars. These comprise neutron stars as well as hypothetical strange matter stars, made up of absolutely stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ch. Schaab , F. Weber , M. K. Weigel , N. K. Glendenning

Axion Like Particles (ALPs), postulated to solve the strong-CP problem, are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields, which may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-04 Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

A review of the status of axions and axion-like particles is given. Special attention is devoted to the recent results of the PVLAS collaboration, which are in conflict with the CAST data and with the astrophysical constraints. Solutions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduard Masso

The axion-like particle (ALP) is a well motivated new particle candidate of beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we propose to probe the ALP through the photon fusion scattering at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Yandong Liu , Bin Yan

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant enigmas in modern cosmology. Axion-like particles (ALPs), as well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter, can undergo radiative decay into photon pairs, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Wen-Qing Guo

New pseudo-scalars, often called axion-like particles (ALPs), abound in model-building and are often associated with the breaking of a new symmetry. Traditional searches and indirect bounds are limited to light axions, typically in or below…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Ken Mimasu , Verónica Sanz

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are promising dark matter candidates. They are typically described by a classical field, motivated by large phase space occupation numbers. Here we show that such a description is accompanied by a quantum effect:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 Michael Kopp , Vasileios Fragkos , Igor Pikovski

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a common prediction of certain theories beyond the Standard Model and couple to photons in the presence of external magnetic fields. As a consequence, photon-ALP conversions could lead to an enhancement of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-09 Manuel Meyer

Very weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs), such as axion-like particles (ALPs) or hidden photons (HPs), may be non-thermally produced via the misalignment mechanism in the early universe and survive as a cold dark matter population…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Paola Arias , Davide Cadamuro , Mark Goodsell , Joerg Jaeckel , Javier Redondo , Andreas Ringwald

The PVLAS collaboration has obtained results that may be interpreted in terms of a light axion-like particle, while the CAST collaboration has not found any signal of such particles. Moreover, the PVLAS results are in gross contradiction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eduard Masso , Javier Redondo

The recently measured 3.5 keV line in a number of galaxy clusters, the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the Milky Way (MW) center can be well accounted for by a scenario in which dark matter decays to axion-like particles (ALPs) and subsequently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-16 Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Hua Feng

We report on a search for dark matter axion-like particles (ALPs) using a Ramsey-type apparatus for cold neutrons. A hypothetical ALP-gluon-coupling would manifest in a neutron electric dipole moment signal oscillating in time. Twenty-four…