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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

We study prospects to detect axion-like particles (ALPs) with the upcoming near-infrared telescope SPHEREx. The signal under investigation is the ALP decay into two photons. Assuming dark matter (DM) to be in the form of ALPs, we analyze…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Marco Regis , Marco Taoso , Jorge Terol Calvo

The nature of dark matter is an unsolved cosmological problem and axions are one of the weakly interacting cold dark matter candidates. Axions or ALPs (Axion-like particles) are pseudo-scalar bosons predicted by beyond-standard model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

Future gamma-ray experiments, such as the e-ASTROGAM and AMEGO telescopes, can detect the Hawking radiation of photons from primordial black holes (PBHs) if they make up a fraction or all of dark matter. PBHs can analogously also Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Kaustubh Agashe , Jae Hyeok Chang , Steven J. Clark , Bhaskar Dutta , Yuhsin Tsai , Tao Xu

Ultra-light axion-like particles (ALPs) can be a viable solution to the dark matter problem. The scalar field associated with ALPs, coupled to the electromagnetic field, acts as an active birefringent medium, altering the polarisation…

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that occur in extensions of the Standard Model and are candidates for cold dark matter. They could be detected through their oscillations into photons in the presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Manuel Meyer , James Davies , Julian Kuhlmann

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) appear in many extensions of the Standard Model and are being investigated as promising dark matter (DM) candidates. One viable methodology for their detection involves the investigation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-18 Wen-Qing Guo , Zi-Qing Xia , Xiaoyuan Huang

We derive updated cosmological bounds on light axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to leptons or photons, using a full phase-space treatment of their production from the primordial thermal plasma. The ALP phase-space distribution, obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Nicola Barbieri , Luca Caloni , Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Luca Visinelli

We study cross correlations between line intensity and weak lensing maps to search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Radiative decay of eV-mass ALPs can contribute to cosmic background emissions at optical and infrared wavelengths. Line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Masato Shirasaki

X-ray observations of bright AGNs in or behind galaxy clusters offer unique capabilities to constrain axion-like particles (ALPs). Existing analysis technique rely on measurements of the global goodness-of-fit. We develop a new analysis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Joseph P. Conlon , Markus Rummel

Discoveries of very high energy (VHE) photons from distant blazars suggest that, after correction by extragalactic background light (EBL) absorption, there is a flatness or even a turn-up in their spectra at the highest energies that cannot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Dominguez , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , F. Prada

It was recently pointed out that very energetic subclasses of supernovae (SNe), like hypernovae and superluminous SNe, might host ultra-strong magnetic fields in their core. Such fields may catalyze the production of feebly interacting…

We have recently shown that axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) may emit an observable stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background when they begin to oscillate in the early universe. In this note, we identify the regions of ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-23 Camila S. Machado , Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller , Ben A. Stefanek

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

Limits on spin-0 axion-like-particles (ALPs) coupling to photons are reinterpreted as constraints on massive spin-2 graviton-like-particles (GLPs) with universal coupling $\alpha_\text{G}/M_\text{P}$ (where $M_\text{P}$ is the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Jordan Gué , David d'Enterria

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

Axionlike particles (ALPs) could mix with photons in the presence of astrophysical magnetic fields. Searching for this effect in gamma-ray observations of blazars has provided some of the strongest constraints on ALP parameter space so far.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 James Davies , Manuel Meyer , Garret Cotter

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 viable candidates for dark matter (DM) in the universe. If they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Ahmed Ayad , Geoff Beck

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are attracting increasing interest since, among other things, they are a prediction of many extensions of the standard model of elementary particles physics and in particular of superstrings and superbranes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-23 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

Axion-like particles (ALPs) belong to a class of new pseudoscalar particles that generically couple to photons, opening the possibility of oscillations from photons into ALPs in an external magnetic field. Having witnessed the turbulence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-14 Denis Wouters , Pierre Brun