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We propose a new collider probe for axion-like particles (ALPs), and more generally for pseudo-Goldstone bosons: non-resonant searches which take advantage of the derivative nature of their interactions with Standard Model particles. ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 M. B. Gavela , J. M. No , V. Sanz , J. F. de Trocóniz

Axionlike particles (ALPs) are hypothetical light (sub-eV) bosons predicted in some extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In astrophysical environments comprising high-energy gamma rays and turbulent magnetic fields, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-19 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , A. Abramowski , F. Acero , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , A. G. Akhperjanian , E. Angüner , G. Anton , S. Balenderan , A. Balzer , A. Barnacka , Y. Becherini , J. Becker Tjus , K. Bernlöhr , E. Birsin , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , P. Bordas , J. Brucker , F. Brun , P. Brun , T. Bulik , S. Carrigan , S. Casanova , M. Cerruti , P. M. Chadwick , R. Chalme-Calvet , R. C. G. Chaves , A. Cheesebrough , M. Chrétien , S. Colafrancesco , G. Cologna , J. Conrad , C. Couturier , M. Dalton , M. K. Daniel , I. D. Davids , B. Degrange , C. Deil , P. deWilt , H. J. Dickinson , A. Djannati-Ataï , W. Domainko , L. O'C. Drury , G. Dubus , K. Dutson , J. Dyks , M. Dyrda , T. Edwards K. Egberts , P. Eger , P. Espigat , C. Farnier , S. Fegan , F. Feinstein , M. V. Fernandes , D. Fernandez , A. Fiasson , G. Fontaine , A. Förster , M. Füssling , M. Gajdus , Y. A. Gallant , T. Garrigoux , H. Gast , B. Giebels , J. F. Glicenstein , D. Göring , M. -H. Grondin , M. Grudzińska , S. Häffner , J. D. Hague , J. Hahn , J. Harris , G. Heinzelmann , G. Henri , G. Hermann , O. Hervet , A. Hillert , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , P. Hofverberg , M. Holler , D. Horns , A. Jacholkowska , C. Jahn , M. Jamrozy , M. Janiak , F. Jankowsky , I. Jung , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzyński , U. Katz , S. Kaufmann , B. Khélifi , M. Kieffer , S. Klepser , D. Klochkov , W. Kluźniak , T. Kneiske , D. Kolitzus , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , S. Krakau , F. Krayzel , P. P. Krüger , H. Laffon , G. Lamanna , J. Lefaucheur , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , D. Lennarz , T. Lohse , A. Lopatin , C. -C. Lu , V. Marandon , A. Marcowith , R. Marx , G. Maurin , N. Maxted , M. Mayer , T. J. L. McComb , M. C. Medina , J. Méhault , U. Menzler , M. Meyer , R. Moderski , M. Mohamed , E. Moulin , T. Murach , C. L. Naumann , M. de Naurois , D. Nedbal , J. Niemiec , S. J. Nolan , L. Oakes , S. Ohm , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , B. Opitz , M. Ostrowski , I. Oya , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , M. Paz Arribas , N. W. Pekeur , G. Pelletier , J. Perez , P. -O. Petrucci , B. Peyaud , S. Pita , H. Poon , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , M. Raue , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , R. de los Reyes , F. Rieger , L. Rob , S. Rosier-Lees , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , C. B. Rulten , V. Sahakian , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , R. Schlickeiser , F. Schüssler , A. Schulz , U. Schwanke , S. Schwarzburg , S. Schwemmer , H. Sol , G. Spengler , F. Spies , L. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , F. Stinzing , K. Stycz , I. Sushch , A. Szostek , J. -P. Tavernet , R. Terrier , M. Tluczykont , C. Trichard , K. Valerius , C. van Eldik , G. Vasileiadis , C. Venter , A. Viana , P. Vincent , H. J. Völk , F. Volpe , M. Vorster , S. J. Wagner , P. Wagner , M. Ward , M. Weidinger , Q. Weitzel , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , P. Willmann , A. Wörnlein , D. Wouters , M. Zacharias , A. Zajczyk , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. -S. Zechlin

We assume that dark matter is comprised of axion-like particles (ALPs) generated by the realignment mechanism in the post-inflationary scenario. This leads to isocurvature fluctuations with an amplitude of order one for scales comparable to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-16 Martin Feix , Johann Frank , Andreas Pargner , Robert Reischke , Bjoern Malte Schaefer , Thomas Schwetz

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

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

We report on the first results of the Noble and Alkali Spin Detectors for Ultralight Coherent darK matter (NASDUCK) collaboration. We search for the interactions of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with atomic spins using an earth-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-08 Itay M. Bloch , Gil Ronen , Roy Shaham , Ori Katz , Tomer Volansky , Or Katz

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

Searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) are motivated by the strong CP problem in particle physics and by unexplained dark matter in astrophysics. In this letter, we discuss novel ALP searches using monoenergetic nuclear de-excitation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-29 Loyd Waites , Adrian Thompson , Adriana Bungau , Janet M. Conrad , Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Doojin Kim , Michael Shaevitz , Joshua Spitz

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons, natural in extensions of the Standard Model. Their interactions with ordinary matter and radiation are suppressed, making it challenging to detect them in laboratory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 S. V. Troitsky

The QCD axion was originally predicted as a dynamical solution to the strong CP problem. Axion like particles (ALPs) are also a generic prediction of many high energy physics models including string theory. Theoretical models for axions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-11 David J. E. Marsh

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

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

Adding an axion-like particle (ALP) to the Standard Model, with a field velocity in the early universe, simultaneously explains the observed baryon and dark matter densities. This requires one or more couplings between the ALP and photons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Raymond T. Co , Lawrence J. Hall , Keisuke Harigaya

An axion-like-particle (ALP) in the post-inflationary scenario with domain wall number $N>1$ can be dark matter if the residual $\mathbb{Z}_N$ symmetry has a small explicit breaking. Although we cannot determine the full dynamics of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Marco Gorghetto , Edward Hardy

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global $U(1)$ symmetries. Such particles can have lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) couplings to the SM charged leptons. LFV ALPs provide the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-24 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates whose coupling to photons induces periodic oscillations in the polarization angle of astrophysical light. This work reports the first search for such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Qiu-Ju Huang , Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a well-motivated dark matter candidate that solve some of the problems in the clustering of large scale structure in cosmology. ALPs are often described by a simplified quadratic potential to specify the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Harrison Winch , Renee Hlozek , David J. E. Marsh , Daniel Grin , Keir Rogers

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

Most of the matter in the Universe is in the form of dark matter, which has evaded detection so far. Ultralight axionlike particles (ALPs) are a class of dark matter candidates that produce measurable signatures in the form of oscillating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Mingyu Fan , Bassam Nima , Aleksandar Radak , Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Amar Vutha

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