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There are broadly three channels to probe axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in the laboratory: through their subsequent decay to Standard Model (SM) particles, their scattering with SM particles, or their subsequent conversion to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-20 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

Experimental searches for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) which couple to the electroweak bosons span over a wide range of ALP masses, from MeV searches at beam-dump experiments, to TeV searches at the LHC. Here we examine an interesting range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-27 Noah Steinberg

Axion-like particles (ALPs) that decay into photon pairs pose a challenge for experiments that rely on the construction of a decay vertex in order to search for long-lived particles. This is particularly true for beam-dump experiments,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Alessandro Morandini , Torben Ferber , Felix Kahlhoefer

We report the results of a search for sub-GeV axion-like particles (ALPs) using pilot run data from the Electron Beam-dump Experiment at KEK LINAC Switching Yard 3 (EBES). The data were collected in December 2023 with a 4 GeV positron beam…

The aim of the proposed CERN Gamma Factory is to produce $\sim 10^{17}$ photons per second with energies up to 400 MeV. The photon beam intensity is expected to be a factor of $\mathcal{O}(10^7)$ larger than that of the presently available…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-28 Reuven Balkin , Mieczyslaw W. Krasny , Teng Ma , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq

The production of axionlike particles (ALPs) with small masses in ultraperipheral $Pb - p$ and $Pb - Pb$ collisions at the LHC is investigated. The cross section and kinematical distributions associated to the diphoton final state produced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 V. P. Goncalves , D. E. Martins , M. S. Rangel

Axion-like particles (ALPs), hypothetical pseudoscalar particles that couple to photons, are among the most actively investigated candidates for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Their interaction with gamma rays in the presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-15 Pooja Bhattacharjee , Christopher Eckner , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Gert Kluge , Giacomo D'Amico

In this work we propose reactoscope, a novel experimental setup for axion-like particle (ALP) searches. Nuclear reactors produce a copious number of photons, a fraction of which could convert into ALPs via Primakoff process in the reactor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Fernando Arias-Aragón , Vedran Brdar , Jérémie Quevillon

We update the globular cluster bound on massive ($m_a$ up to a few 100 keV) axion-like particles (ALP) interacting with photons. The production of such particles in the stellar core is dominated by the Primakoff $\gamma + Ze\to Ze +a$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 Pierluca Carenza , Oscar Straniero , Babette Döbrich , Maurizio Giannotti , Giuseppe Lucente , Alessandro Mirizzi

We perform a feasibility study of a beam dump experiment at the International Linear Collider (ILC). To investigate the sensitivity to new light particles at the experiment, we consider models for axion-like particles (ALPs) and a light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Yasuhito Sakaki , Daiki Ueda

We present constraints on the nature of axions and axionlike particles (ALPs) by analyzing gamma--ray data from neutron stars using the Fermi Large Area Telescope. In addition to axions solving the strong CP problem of particle physics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 Bijan Berenji , Jennifer Gaskins , Manuel Meyer

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can provide a portal to new states of a dark sector. We study the phenomenology of this portal when the ALP mainly decays invisibly, while its interaction with the standard model sector proceeds essentially via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Luc Darmé , Federica Giacchino , Enrico Nardi , Mauro Raggi

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

We propose a novel method to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) at particle accelerator experiments (exps). ALPs produced at the target via the Primakoff effect subsequently enter a region with a magnetic field, where they are converted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Walter M. Bonivento , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha

As part of experimental measurements by the ATLAS collaboration during 2015 and 2018 years of light-on-light scattering in Pb+Pb collisions, at an integrated luminosity of 2.2 nb$^{-1}$ and energy of 5.02 TeV, we modeled the cross sections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 T. V. Obikhod , S. B. Chernyshenko

Axionlike particles (ALPs) emerge from spontaneously broken global symmetries in high energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This causes ALPs to be among the objectives of future experiments which intend to search for new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

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) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global symmetries incorporated in the Standard Model (SM) Lagrangian in many models beyond the SM. The existence of a light ALP is plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-11 Shirin Chenarani , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We revisit the theory and constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) interacting with leptons. We clarify some subtleties in the constraints on ALP parameter space and find several new opportunities for ALP detection. We identify a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-23 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Jeff A. Dror , Stefania Gori