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We propose a mechanism for the generation of a magnetic field in the early universe during the QCD crossover assuming that dark matter is made of axions. Thermoelectric fields arise at pressure gradients in the primordial plasma due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Francesco Miniati , Gianluca Gregori , Brian Reville , Subir Sarkar

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

Cosmological precision data can be used to set very strict constraints on Axions and Axion-like particles (ALPs) produced thermally in the big bang. We briefly review the known bounds and propose two new constraints for Axions and ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Davide Cadamuro , Javier Redondo

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

Although axion-like particles (ALPs) are popular dark matter candidates, their mass generation mechanisms as well as cosmic thermal evolutions are still unclear. In this letter, we propose a new mass generation mechanism of ALP during the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-25 Wei Chao , Mingjie Jin , Hai-Jun Li , Ying-Quan Peng

Previous computations of feebly interacting particle production have encountered issues with unphysical (negative) interaction rates at soft momenta. We address this problem by studying the production of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-05 Mathias Becker , Julia Harz , Enrico Morgante , Cristina Puchades-Ibáñez , Pedro Schwaller

Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

Axion-like particles (ALPs), hypothetical extensions of the Standard Model, can convert into photons in an external magnetic field. Two recent studies~\cite{Todarello:2023ptf, Ruz:2024gkl} explored the phenomenology of ALP-photon conversion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Elisa Todarello

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons inter-convert in the presence of a magnetic field. At keV energies in the environment of galaxy clusters, the conversion probability can become unsuppressed for light ALPs. Conversion of thermal X-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Joseph P. Conlon , M. C. David Marsh , Andrew J. Powell

Axion-like particles (ALPs), a class of pseudoscalars common to many extensions of the Standard Model, have the capacity to drain energy from the interiors of stars. Consequently, stellar evolution can be used to derive many constraints on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-16 Matthew J. Dolan , Frederick J. Hiskens , Raymond R. Volkas

We investigate the non-perturbatively generated axion-like particle (ALP) potential, involving fermions in the dark sector that couple to the ALP, in an early cosmological inflationary stage with the ALP being a spectator field. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-02 Anish Ghoshal , Abhishek Naskar

A new scenario for creation of galactic magnetic fields is proposed which is operative at the cosmological epoch of the galaxy formation, and which relies on unconventional properties of dark matter. Namely, it requires existence of feeble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 Zurab Berezhiani , A. D. Dolgov , I. I. Tkachev

The axion is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson. It appears after the spontaneous breaking of the Peccei-Quinn symmetry, which was proposed to solve the strong-CP problem. Other pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons, postulated in some extensions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-12 Davide Cadamuro

We propose a new method to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) based on the gamma-rays produced concomitant with high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The existence of high-energy neutrinos implies production of gamma-rays in the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-07 Hendrik Vogel , Ranjan Laha , Manuel Meyer

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical entities often invoked to solve various problems in particle physics to cosmology. They are one of the most promising candidates to explain the elusive dark matter. A way to search for ALPs is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 Rafael Alves Batista , Cristina Viviente , Gaetano Di Marco , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

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

We propose in this work the study of the production of axions in stellar plasma medium through an external magnetic field. In the background field approximation, we can show that the presence of the external magnetic field induces a mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Bernard Teles de Menezes

Axionlike particles (ALPs) can be produced in the Sun, and are considered viable candidates for the cosmological dark matter (DM). It can decay into two photons or interact with matter. We identify new inelastic channels of inverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 C. -P. Wu , C. -P. Liu , Greeshma C. , L. Singh , J. -W. Chen , H. -C. Chi , M. K. Pandey , H. T. Wong

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields. This effect may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as AGNs. Here we carry out a detailed study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-31 M. A. Sanchez-Conde , D. Paneque , E. Bloom , F. Prada , A. Dominguez