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Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are a generic, calculable, and well motivated extension of the Standard Model with far reaching phenomenology. ALPs that couple only to hypercharge represent one subset of such models, coupling the ALP to both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Noah Steinberg , James D. Wells

The possibility of searching for long-lived axion-like particles (ALPs) decaying into photons is investigated in ultraperipheral $PbPb$ collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We propose a search strategy for low mass ALPs using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Pedro Nogarolli , Victor P. Gonçalves , Murilo S. Rangel

A consistent treatment of the quantum field theory of an axion-like particle (ALP) interacting with Standard Model fields requires to account for renormalisation group running and matching to the low-energy theory. Quantum sensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-15 Martin Bauer , Sreemanti Chakraborti , Guillaume Rostagni

We study the possibility of probing the existence of a light, invisible, axion-like particle (ALP) $a$ in leptonic decays of the $Z$ boson at the proposed high-energy $e^+e^-$ colliders, CEPC and FCC-ee. Both projects plan to run at the $Z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-11 Lorenzo Calibbi , Zijie Huang , Shaoyang Qin , Yiming Yang , Xiaoyue Yin

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

In this work we revisit five different point sources within or behind galaxy clusters in order to constrain the coupling constant between axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons. We use three distinct machine learning (ML) techniques and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Simon Schallmoser , Sven Krippendorf , Francesca Chadha-Day , Jochen Weller

Future muon colliders with center-of-mass energy of $\mathcal{O}(1-10)$ TeV can provide a clean high-energy environment with advantages in searches for TeV-scale axion-like particles (ALPs), pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 So Chigusa , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Yufei Zhang

Studies of axion-like particles (ALPs) commonly focus on a single type of interaction, for example couplings only to photons. Most ALP models however predict correlations between different couplings, which change the phenomenology in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Fatih Ertas , Felix Kahlhoefer

We consider a muonphilic axion-like-particle (ALP), denoted as $a$, lighter than twice the muon mass. ALPs of this mass range dominantly decay into a pair of photons, induced by a triangular muon loop. Such light muonphilic ALPs are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Kingman Cheung , Jui-Lin Kuo , Po-Yan Tseng , Zeren Simon Wang

We show that in theories of axionlike particles (ALPs) coupled to electrons at tree-level, the one-loop effective coupling to photons is process dependent: the effective coupling relevant for decay processes, $g_{a\gamma}^{\text{(D)}}$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-29 Ricardo Z. Ferreira , M. C. David Marsh , Eike Müller

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated examples of light, weakly coupled particles in theories beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we study long-lived ALPs coupled exclusively to leptons in the mass range between $2 m_e$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Yohei Ema , Patrick J. Fox , Matheus Hostert , Tony Menzo , Maxim Pospelov , Anupam Ray , Jure Zupan

In this work, we explore the possibilities of producing Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) in a future $e^-p$ collider. Specifically, we focus on the proposed Large Hadron electron collider (LHeC), which can achieve a center-of-mass energy of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-19 Karabo Mosala , Pramod Sharma , Mukesh Kumar , Ashok Goyal

The axion-like particle (ALP) is a well motivated new particle candidate of beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we propose to probe the ALP through the photon fusion scattering at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Yandong Liu , Bin Yan

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken global symmetries in high-energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This makes them a prime target for future experiments aiming to discover new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Martin Bauer , Mathias Heiles , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

Neutrino experiments lie at the edge of the intensity frontier and therefore can be exploited to search for new light particles weakly coupled to the visible sector. In this work we derive new constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Pilar Coloma , Pilar Hernández , Salvador Urrea

Axion and axion-like particles (ALPs), predicted by various extensions of the Standard Model, can be copiously produced in nuclear reactors via the Primakoff process. In this work, we explore the detection of such relativistic ALPs through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Yuanlin Gong , Jun Guo , Ning Liu , Liangliang Su , Wen-Na Yang

The virtual production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in the light-by-light scattering at the CLIC collider is studied. Both differential and total cross sections are calculated, assuming interaction of the ALP with photons via CP-odd term…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 S. C. Inan , A. V. Kisselev

Axion-like particles (ALPs), a class of pseudoscalars common to many extensions of the Standard Model, have the capacity to drain energy from the interiors of stars. Consequently, stellar evolution can be used to derive many constraints on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-16 Matthew J. Dolan , Frederick J. Hiskens , Raymond R. Volkas

We examine the low-energy signatures of axion-like particles (ALPs) in lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes. By using a dimension-5 effective Lagrangian, we compute the most general ALP contributions to LFV decays of leptons and mesons.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-22 Claudia Cornella , Paride Paradisi , Olcyr Sumensari