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Axion-like particles (ALPs) emerge in many extensions of the Standard Model as pseudo-Goldstone bosons of a spontaneously broken global symmetry. Understanding their phenomenology in high-energy collisions is crucial for optimizing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-04 Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia , Felix Kahlhoefer , Maksym Ovchynnikov , Andrii Zaporozhchenko

We give an overview of collider searches for Axion-like particles (ALPs). The intention of this review is to give a pedagogical introduction to collider phenomenology of ALPs, and provide a starting point for newcomers, including suitable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-28 Anke Biekötter , Ken Mimasu

Radiative quarkonia decays offer an ideal setting for probing Axion-Like Particle (ALP) interactions. This paper provides a comprehensive review of ALP production mechanisms through the $e^+ e^- \to \gamma\,a$ process at B- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-21 Luca Di Luzio , Alfredo Walter Mario Guerrera , Xavier Ponce Díaz , Stefano Rigolin

We present an in-depth analysis of axions and axion-like particles in top-pair production at the LHC. Our main goal is to probe the axion coupling to top quarks at high energies. To this end, we calculate the top-antitop cross section and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-10 Anh Vu Phan , Susanne Westhoff

The existence of an axion-like particle (ALP) would induce anomalous scattering of light by light. This process can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider in central exclusive production of photon pairs in proton-proton collisions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Cristian Baldenegro , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Christophe Royon

The QCD axion provides an elegant solution to the Strong CP Problem. While the minimal realization is vulnerable to the so-called "Axion Quality Problem", we will consider a more robust realization in the presence of a mirror sector related…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-18 Anson Hook , Soubhik Kumar , Zhen Liu , Raman Sundrum

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear in various new physics models with spontaneous global symmetry breaking. When the ALP mass is in the range of MeV to GeV, the cosmology and astrophysics bounds are so far quite weak. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Jie Ren , Daohan Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Mengchao Zhang

We have examined the sensitivity to the axion-like particle (ALP) couplings to electroweak gauge bosons in the diphoton production at a future muon collider. The collisions at the $\mu^+ \mu^-$ energies of 3 TeV, 14 TeV, and 100 TeV are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-08 S. C. İnan , A. V. Kisselev

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and Higgs bosons can interact in scalar sectors beyond the Standard Model, leading the Higgs boson to decay into pairs of gluons and photons through the ALP interaction and giving rise to resonances in the decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Alexandre Alves , A. G. Dias , D. D. Lopes

We study the discovery potential of axion-like particles (ALP), pseudo-scalars weakly coupled to Standard Model fields, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our focus is on ALPs coupled to the electromagnetic field, which would induce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-20 C. Baldenegro , S. Hassani , C. Royon , L. Schoeffel

Axion-Like-Particles are among the most economical and well motivated extensions of the Standard Model. In this work ALP production from hadronic and leptonic meson decays are studied. The hadronization part of these decay amplitudes have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-19 Alfredo Walter Mario Guerrera , Stefano Rigolin

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can provide a portal to new states of a dark sector. We study the phenomenology of this portal when the ALP mainly decays invisibly, while its interaction with the standard model sector proceeds essentially via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Luc Darmé , Federica Giacchino , Enrico Nardi , Mauro Raggi

Heavy axion-like particles (ALPs), with masses up to a few 100 keV and coupled with photons can be efficiently produced in stellar plasmas, contributing to a significant energy-loss. This argument has been applied to helium burning stars in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Giuseppe Lucente , Oscar Straniero , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

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

Pseudo-scalar particles, often referred to as axion-like-particles (ALPs), arise in a variety of theoretical contexts. The phenomenology of such states is typically studied assuming flavor-conserving interactions, yet they can in principle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-08 Hooman Davoudiasl , Roman Marcarelli , Nicholas Miesch , Ethan T. Neil

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 revisit the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to electrons at tree-level in a relativistic plasma. We explicitly demonstrate the equivalence between pseudoscalar and derivative couplings, incorporate previously neglected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Tetyana Pitik , Edoardo Vitagliano

Leptophilic axion-like particles (ALPs) exhibit rich phenomenology, focusing exclusively on interactions between an ALP and Standard Model (SM) leptons. Through integration by parts, it is shown that both the three-point interaction,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Xu-Hui Jiang , Chih-Ting Lu

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