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A major fraction of the mass content of the universe is composed of dark matter (DM), i.e. particles not interacting significantly with electromagnetic radiation, with ordinary matter or self-interacting (cold dark matter). The axion is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-12 Woohyun Chung

The axion is a hypothetical particle associated with a possible solution to the strong CP problem and is a leading candidate for dark matter. In this paper we investigate the emission of axions by accelerated electrons. We find the emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Georgios Vacalis , Atsushi Higuchi , Robert Bingham , Gianluca Gregori

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 (ALP) are promising candidates to comprise all the dark matter in the universe. We investigate the ALP couplings to photons and electrons via astrophysical measurements through the search for very-high-energy gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-23 Victor P. Goncalves , Emmanuel Moulin , Igor Reis , Aion Viana

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

We study the discovery potential of axion-like particles (ALP), pseudo-scalars weakly coupled to Standard Model fields, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our focus is on ALPs coupled to the electromagnetic field, which would induce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-20 C. Baldenegro , S. Hassani , C. Royon , L. Schoeffel

The Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic physics searches (GNOME) conducts an experimental search for certain forms of dark matter based on their spatiotemporal signatures imprinted on a global array of synchronized atomic…

Proton beam dump experiments are among the most promising strategies to search for light and feebly interacting states such as axion-like particles (ALPs). The interpretation of these experiments is however complicated by the wide range of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-21 Jan Jerhot , Babette Döbrich , Fatih Ertas , Felix Kahlhoefer , Tommaso Spadaro

Theoretical axion models state that axions are very weakly interacting particles. In order to experimentally detect them, the use of colorful and inspired techniques becomes mandatory. There is a wide variety of experimental approaches that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-11 R. Battesti , B. Beltran , H. Davoudiasl , M. Kuster , P. Pugnat , R. Rabadan , A. Ringwald , N. Spooner , K. Zioutas

We present a detection scheme to search for QCD axion dark matter, that is based on a direct interaction between axions and electrons explicitly predicted by DFSZ axion models. The local axion dark matter field shall drive transitions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 C. Braggio , G. Carugno , F. Chiossi , A. Di Lieto , M. Guarise , P. Maddaloni , A. Ortolan , G. Ruoso , L. Santamaria , J. Tasseva , M. Tonelli

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are light, neutral, pseudo-scalar bosons predicted by several extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics -- such as the String Theory -- and are supposed to interact primarily only with two photons. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-22 Giorgio Galanti

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo-scalar particles that are candidates for ultralight dark matter. ALPs interact with photons slightly and cause the rotational oscillation of linear polarization. DANCE searches for ALP dark matter by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-19 Hiroki Fujimoto , Yuka Oshima , Masaki Ando , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata

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 introduce the concept of impedance matching to axion dark matter by posing the question of why axion detection is difficult, even though there is enough power in each square meter of incident dark-matter flux to energize a LED light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Saptarshi Chaudhuri

Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated relics that might compose the cosmological dark matter and source anomalous time-dependent magnetic fields. We report on terrestrial bounds from the Noble And Alkali Spin Detectors for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-26 Itay M. Bloch , Roy Shaham , Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Tomer Volansky , Or Katz

Our goal is to consider Axion-like particle (ALP) model to investigate the behaviour of space-time in the vicinity of the domain wall, induced by axion-like field. Here we present first-step approximation in our analysis and discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Maxim A. Krasnov , Maxim Yu. Khlopov , Oem Trivedi

Searches for pseudoscalar axion-like-particles (ALPs) typically rely on their decay in beam dumps or their conversion into photons in haloscopes and helioscopes. We point out a new experimental direction for ALP probes through their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Doojin Kim , Shu Liao , Rupak Mahapatra , Kuver Sinha , Adrian Thompson

Axions and axion-like particles may couple to nuclear spins like a weak oscillating effective magnetic field, the "axion wind." Existing proposals for detecting the axion wind sourced by dark matter exploit analogies to nuclear magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Christina Gao , W. P. Halperin , Yonatan Kahn , Man Nguyen , Jan Schütte-Engel , J. W. Scott

X-ray telescopes are an exceptional tool for searching for new fundamental physics. In particular, X-ray observations have already placed world-leading bounds on the interaction between photons and axion-like particles (ALPs). ALPs are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Francesca Day , Sven Krippendorf

We consider a possibility to observe the axion emission from a nearby supernova (SN) in the future, which can be known in advance by the pre-SN alert system, by collider detectors like the LHC detectors (i.e., the ATLAS and the CMS) and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 Shoji Asai , Yoshiki Kanazawa , Takeo Moroi , Thanaporn Sichanugrist