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Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted by several Beyond the Standard Model theories, in particular, string theory. In the presence of an external magnetic field perpendicular to the direction of propagation, ALPs can couple to photons.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Júlia Sisk Reynés , James H. Matthews , Christopher S. Reynolds , Helen R. Russell , Robyn N. Smith , M. C. David Marsh

High energy photons traveling through astrophysical magnetic fields have the potential to undergo oscillations with axion-like particles (ALPs), resulting in modifications to the observed photon spectrum. High energy $\gamma-$ray sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-20 Jun Li , Xiao-Jun Bi , Lin-Qing Gao , Peng-Fei Yin

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a feasible explanation for the observed lower TeV opacity of the Universe. If the anomaly TeV transparency is caused by ALPs, then the fluxes of distant extragalactic sources will be enhanced at photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Yun-Feng Liang , Xing-Fu Zhang , Ji-Gui Cheng , Hou-Dun Zeng , Yi-Zhong Fan , En-Wei Liang

We study photon-ALP conversion by resonance effects in the magnetized plasma of galaxy clusters and compare the predicted distortion of the cosmic microwave background spectrum in the direction of such objects to measurements of the thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-05 Martin Schlederer , Günter Sigl

Decaying axion-like particles (ALP) with masses in the eV range which might occupy dark matter halos of the Milky Way and other galaxies produce a characteristic "bump" feature in the spectrum of extragalactic background light (EBL). This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-20 A. Korochkin , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz

Well-motivated extensions of the standard model predict ultra-light and fundamental pseudo-scalar particles (e.g., axions or axion-like particles: ALPs). Similarly to the Primakoff-effect for axions, ALPs can mix with photons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns

We propose that axion-like particles (ALPs) with a two-photon vertex, consistent with all astrophysical and laboratory bounds, may lead to a detectable signature in the spectra of high-energy gamma ray sources. This occurs as a result of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper , Pasquale D. Serpico

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to photons in strong magnetic fields, producing characteristic fluctuations in X-ray spectra. Using data from NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we analyzed three pulsars: PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Yen-Jhen Liu , Yi Yang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles and compelling candidates for cold dark matter. Their existence could be probed through their conversions into photons in the presence of magnetic fields. In this work, we explore the…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can oscillate to photons and vice versa in electromagnetic fields. The photon-ALP oscillation provides an attractive solution to the apparent transparency of the Universe to TeV photons. The allowed parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Yun-Feng Liang , Cun Zhang , Zi-Qing Xia , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

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

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) are one promising kind of dark matter candidate particles that are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields. The oscillations between photons and ALPs travelling in the magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Jia Bu , Ya-Ping Li

In many approaches to describe physics beyond the standard model, light Nambu-Goldstone bosons (named axion-like particles or ALPS for their similarity with the axion) are predicted to exist. For ALPs with a mass of neV, photon-ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-27 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns

We investigate the axion like particle (ALP)-photon oscillation effect in the high energy $\gamma$-ray spectra of PG 1553+113 and PKS 2155-304 measured by Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S.. The choice of extragalactic background light (EBL) model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-05 Junguang Guo , Hai-Jun Li , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

Extensions of the Standard Model of particles commonly predict the existence of axion(-like) particles (ALPs) that could be detected through their coupling to photons in external magnetic fields. This coupling could lead to modifications of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-11 M. Meyer , J. Conrad

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

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 a broad class of pseudo-scalar bosons that generically arise from broken symmetries in extensions of the standard model. In many scenarios, ALPs can mix with photons in regions with high magnetic fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 Sunniva Jacobsen , Tim Linden , Katherine Freese

Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to nucleons can be efficiently produced in core-collapse supernovae (SNe) and then, if they couple to photons, convert into gamma rays in cosmic magnetic fields, generating short gamma-ray bursts. Though…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Francesca Lecce , Alessandro Lella , Giuseppe Lucente , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi