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We investigate the production of dark radiation (DR) from axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) as potential origins of dark matter. Focusing on the dark matter misalignment mechanism, we examine non-thermal, pre-inflationary scenarios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 José María Pérez-Poyatos , Veronica Sanz

Many existing and proposed experiments targeting QCD axion dark matter (DM) can also search for a broad class of axion-like particles (ALPs). We analyze the experimental sensitivities to electromagnetically-coupled ALP DM in different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Nikita Blinov , Matthew J. Dolan , Patrick Draper , Jonathan Kozaczuk

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model and are among the well-motivated candidates for dark matter. In the presence of magnetic fields of galaxy clusters, Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Harsh Mehta , Anaya Dixit , Suvodip Mukherjee , Joseph Silk

We investigate how the photon polarization is affected by the interaction with axion-like particles (ALPs) in the rotating magnetic field of a neutron star (NS). Using quantum Boltzmann equations the study demonstrates that the periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei , Sabino Matarrese , Roberto Turolla

We revisit the adiabatic conversion between the QCD axion and axion-like particle (ALP) at level crossing, which can occur in the early universe as a result of the existence of a hypothetical mass mixing. This is similar to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-26 Shu-Yu Ho , Ken'ichi Saikawa , Fuminobu Takahashi

We examine the resonant conversion of axion-like particle (ALP) or dark photon to the electromagnetic photon in the early Universe, which takes place due to the ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations in background dark photon gauge fields. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Kiwoon Choi , Hyeonseok Seong , Seokhoon Yun

The cosmic distance duality (CDD) relation (based on the Etherington reciprocity theorem) plays a crucial role in a wide assortment of cosmological measurements. Attempts at confirming it observationally have met with mixed results, though…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-19 Fulvio Melia

We propose a novel class of Dark Matter (DM) candidates in the form of a heavy composite Axion-Like Particle (ALP) with highly suppressed electromagnetic interactions populating vast yet unexplored domains in the ALP parameter space. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-10 Pierluca Carenza , Roman Pasechnik , Zhi-Wei Wang

{In this paper, we use large scale structure observations to test the redshift dependence of cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR), $D_{\rm L}(1+z)^{-2}/D_{\rm A}=\eta(z)$}, with $D_{\rm L}$ and $D_{\rm A}$, being the luminosity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 R. F. L. Holanda , F. S. Lima , Akshay Rana , Deepak Jain

Dark Matter (DM) may be comprised of axion-like particles (ALPs) with couplings to photons and the standard model fermions. In this paper we study photon signals arising from cosmic ray (CR) electron scattering on background ALPs. For a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Alejandro Rodriguez , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Natalia Tapia Arellano

We study axion-like particles (ALPs) whose dominant interactions are with gluons and third-generation quarks, and whose couplings to light Standard Model (SM) particles arise at one loop. These loop-induced effects lead to ALP decays and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Jon Butterworth , Matthew Cullingworth , Joseph Egan , Fabian Esser , Veronica Sanz , Maria Ubiali

We propose a novel telescope concept based on Earth's gravitational lensing effect, optimized for the detection of distant dark matter sources, particularly axion-like particles (ALPs). When a unidirectional flux of dark matter passes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Taiyo Nakamura , Kensuke Homma

We investigate the prospect of an alternative laboratory-based search for the coupling of axions and axion-like particles to photons. Here, the collision of two laser beams resonantly produces axions, and a signal photon is detected after…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-18 K. A. Beyer , G. Marocco , R. Bingham , G. Gregori

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

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are a generic, calculable, and well motivated extension of the Standard Model with far reaching phenomenology. ALPs that couple only to hypercharge represent one subset of such models, coupling the ALP to both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Noah Steinberg , James D. Wells

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 axion-like particle (ALP), a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson that couples to two photons, has been studied extensively in recent years as a dark matter candidate. For initial field configurations in a minimal ALP model explaining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Yuma Narita , Wen Yin

We test the possible deviation of the cosmic distance duality relation $D_A(z)(1+z)^2/D_L(z)\equiv 1$ using the standard candles/rulers in a fully model-independent manner. Type-Ia supernovae are used as the standard candles to derive the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-14 Xin Li , Hai-Nan Lin

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). When ALP mass lies in the range of MeV to GeV, the cosmology and astrophysics will be largely irrelevant. In this work, we investigate such light ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Daohan Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Mengchao Zhang

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