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The cumulative emission of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) from all past core-collapse supernovae (SNe) would lead to a diffuse flux with energies ${\mathcal O}(50)$ MeV. We use this to constrain ALPs featuring couplings to photons and to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-03 Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Joerg Jaeckel , Alessandro Mirizzi

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

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

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

Bounds are derived on the axion-like particle (ALP) to two-photon coupling in the mass range $2.65-5.27$ eV. The bounds are obtained by searching for the signal from ALP decay in the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Elisa Todarello

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are the focus of intense current research. We analyze photon-ALP conversion in the context of relativistic jet models of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) for more than 100 sources. Contrary to previous claims, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-26 Nicola Bassan , Marco Roncadelli

High energy photons originating from the Galactic Center (GC) region have the potential to undergo significant photon-axion-like particle (ALP) oscillation effects, primarily induced by the presence of intense magnetic fields in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Ben-Yang Zhu , Xiaoyuan Huang , Peng-Fei Yin

We investigate the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in stellar cores, where they interact with electromagnetic fields and electrons, with typical masses between $\mathcal O(0.1)$ and $\mathcal O(10)$ keV. These low-energy ALPs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-13 Yu-Xuan Chen , Lei Lei , Zi-Qing Xia , Ziwei Wang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

We use the first observation of Betelgeuse in hard $X$-rays to perform a novel search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Betelgeuse is not expected to be a standard source of $X$-rays, but light ALPs produced in the stellar core could be…

Light axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple to two photons are allowed in a number of proposed extensions to the Standard Model of elementary particles. Of particular interest from a theoretical and observational standpoint is the energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 P. L. Slocum , O. K. Baker , J. L. Hirshfield , Y. Jiang , G. Kazakevitch , S. Kazakov , M. A. LaPointe , A. T. Malagon , A. J. Martin , S. Shchelkunov , A. Szymkowiak

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a promising direction in the search for new physics, while a wide range of models incorporate ALPs. We point out that future neutrino experiments, such as DUNE, possess competitive sensitivity to ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Vedran Brdar , Bhaskar Dutta , Wooyoung Jang , Doojin Kim , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Adrian Thompson , Jaehoon Yu

The hot interiors of massive stars in the later stages of their evolution provide an ideal place for the production of heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) with mass up to O(100 keV) range. We show that a fraction of these ALPs could stream…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 James H. Buckley , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Francesc Ferrer , Takuya Okawa

The hypothetical axion and axion-like particles, feebly coupled with photon, have not yet been found in any experiment. With the improvement of laser technique, much stronger but shorter quasi-static electric and magnetic fields can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Shan Huang , Baifei Shen , Zhigang Bu , Xiaomei Zhang , Liangliang Ji , Shuhua Zhai

Ultra-light bosons such as axions or axion-like particles (ALPs), are promising candidates to solve the dark matter problem. A unique way to detect such ALPs is to search for the periodic oscillation feature of the position angles of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Guan-Wen Yuan , Ziqing Xia , Chengfeng Tang , Yaqi Zhao , Yi-Fu Cai , Yifan Chen , Jing Shu , Qiang Yuan

We use legacy data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) to search for a spectral line from the spontaneous decay of axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter. The HST data consist of blank sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Elisa Todarello

We propose an experiment for detecting Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) based on the axion-photon interaction in the presence of a non-uniform magnetic field. The impact of virtual ALPs on the polarization of the photons inside a cavity is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Moslem Zarei , Soroush Shakeri , Mohammad Sharifian , Mehdi Abdi , David J. E. Marsh , Sabino Matarrese

Axionlike-particles (ALPs) are one promising type of dark matter candidate particle that may generate detectable effects on $\gamma$-ray spectra other than the canonical weakly interacting massive particles. In this work we search for such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Zi-Qing Xia , Cun Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Jian Wu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are compelling candidates for dark matter and potential portals to new physics beyond the Standard Model. Photons traversing magnetized regions can convert into ALPs, producing characteristic, energy-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Denys Malyshev , Lidiia Zadorozhna , Yuriy Bidasyuk , Andrea Santangelo , Oleg Ruchayskiy

We study an axion-like particle (ALP) that experiences the first-order phase transition with respect to its mass or potential minimum. This can be realized if the ALP obtains a potential from non-perturbative effects of SU($N$) gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Shota Nakagawa , Fuminobu Takahashi , Masaki Yamada , Wen Yin

We revisit the limit on very light axion-like particles (ALPs) from the absence of gamma rays coincidental with the neutrino burst from SN1987A. We use updated supernova simulations, modern models for the magnetic field inside the Galaxy,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-17 Alexandre Payez
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