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We discuss the problem of constructing models containing an axion and axion-like particles, motivated by astrophysical observations, with decay constants at the intermediate scale ranging from $10^9$GeV to $10^{13}$GeV. We present examples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-30 Alex G. Dias

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated low-energy relics of high-energy extensions of the Standard Model, which interact with the known particles through higher-dimensional operators suppressed by the mass scale $\Lambda$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner , Marvin Schnubel , Andrea Thamm

We study the collider phenomenology of leptophilic axion-like particles (ALPs), i.e. pseudoscalar particles that couple only to charged leptons. Loops of charged leptons induce effective interactions of the ALPs with photons, which depend…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Alexander Eberhart , Marco Fedele , Felix Kahlhoefer , Eike Ravensburg , Robert Ziegler

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) belong to a well motivated class of particles which are part of a more complete UV theory. In this work, we initiate and present the inclusion of such ALPs or the conventional axions in the Heavy Hadron Chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Namit Mahajan

X-ray telescopes are an exceptional tool for searching for new fundamental physics. In particular, X-ray observations have already placed world-leading bounds on the interaction between photons and axion-like particles (ALPs). ALPs are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Francesca Day , Sven Krippendorf

We offer a pedagogical introduction to axion-like particles (ALPs) as far as their relevance for high-energy astrophysics is concerned, from a few MeV to 1000 TeV. This review is self-contained, in such a way to be understandable even to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-03 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

We explore the possibility of searching for axionlike particle (ALP) by $ep$ collisions via the subprocess $e^{-}\gamma \rightarrow e^{-}a \rightarrow e^{-}\gamma\gamma$. Sensitivities to the effective ALP-photon coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-18 Chong-Xing Yue , Ming-Ze Liu , Yu-Chen Guo

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 can couple to Standard Model gluons, electroweak gauge bosons, and massive fermions. A future multi-TeV muon collider provides a favorable environment to probe axion-like particles through multiple production channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 So Chigusa , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Yufei Zhang

The detection of very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays from the active galaxy M87 by LHAASO, showing a possible spectral hardening around $20$ TeV, motivates the search for new physics beyond standard emission models. One promising candidate is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 A. Pratts , D Avila Rojas , J. Serna-Franco , M. M. González , R. Alfaro

Measurements of the top quark by the ATLAS and CMS experiments go beyond testing the Standard Model (SM) with high precision. Axion-like particles (ALPs), a potential SM extension involving new pseudoscalar particles, exhibit strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Anh Vu Phan

In this paper, we explore the interactions between light axion-like particles (ALPs) and top quarks, gluons, and W-bosons. Utilizing high-energy probes at the LHC, we probe these couplings in the context of single top quark production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

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

Axionlike particles (ALPs) are a common prediction of theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics that could explain the entirety of the cold dark matter. These particles could be detected through their mixing with photons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Meyer

This article describes a search for low-mass axion-like particles (ALPs) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). If ALPs were produced at the LHC via gluon-gluon fusion and decayed to bosons, the energy dependence of the measured diboson…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-29 Sonia Carra , Vincent Goumarre , Ruchi Gupta , Sarah Heim , Beate Heinemann , Jan Kuechler , Federico Meloni , Pablo Quilez , Yee-Chinn Yap

We investigate the sensitivity of current and future hadron-collider experiments to axion-like particles (ALPs) through associated diboson production, focusing on a linear effective field theory framework with bosonic ALP couplings. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Barbara Jäger , Ozan Semin

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are well-motivated candidates for dark matter and potential mediators to the dark sector. We present a search for ALPs coupled to photons, based on a reinterpretation of COMPASS data. Using the 2009 dataset…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Mehran Dehpour

We study the possibility of finding the axion-like particles (ALPs) through the leptonic decays of heavy mesons. The Standard Model (SM) predictions of the branching ratios of the leptonic decays of heavy mesons are less than the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Gang Yang , Tianhong Wang , Guo-Li Wang

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

Assuming the existence of an axion-like particle (ALP), beams of relativistic particles emit fluxes of quasi-real ALPs, analogous to the photon fluxes described by Weizs\"acker-Williams-type approximations. Consequently, ALP-ALP and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 Sergio Barbosa , Matheus Coelho , Sylvain Fichet , Gustavo Gil da Silveira , Magno Machado