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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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global symmetries incorporated in the Standard Model (SM) Lagrangian in many models beyond the SM. The existence of a light ALP is plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-11 Shirin Chenarani , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

The hypothetical axion and axion-like particles, feebly coupled with photon, have not yet been found in any experiment. With the improvement of laser technique, much stronger but shorter quasi-static electric and magnetic fields can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Shan Huang , Baifei Shen , Zhigang Bu , Xiaomei Zhang , Liangliang Ji , Shuhua Zhai

In light of the recent branching fraction measurement of the $B^{+}\to K^{+} \nu\bar{\nu}$ decay by Belle II and its poor agreement with the SM expectation, we analyze the effects of an axion-like particle (ALP) in $B$ meson decays. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Shibasis Roy

In this paper we study axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavour-violating (LFV) couplings in the mass regime above the muon threshold, $m_a>m_\mu$, where the strong bound from the exotic muon decay $\mu\to ea$ no longer apply and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Marco Ardu , Lorenzo Calibbi , Marco Fedele , Federico Mescia

We present an analysis of the sensitivity of current and future LHC searches for new spin-0 particles in top-anti-top-quark ($t\bar{t}$) final states, focusing on generic axion-like particles (ALPs) that are coupled to top quarks and…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a well-motivated framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, coupling to gauge bosons through dimension-five operators protected by an approximate shift symmetry. At the LHC, such interactions lead…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Fabian Esser , Alexandre Salas-Bernardez , Maria Ubiali , Veronica Sanz

We examine a contribution of axion-like particles (ALPs) to a top pair production via the collision of Compton backscattered photons at the CLIC operating in a $\gamma\gamma$ mode. The exclusion bounds on the ALP-top quark coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-04 S. C. İnan , A. V. Kisselev

Due to the pseudo-scalar nature of the axion-like particle (ALP), the CP- conserving production of two Higgs bosons via the ALP necessarily involves an additional Z or $\gamma$ boson. We examine the existing constraints from di-Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-30 Fabian Esser , Maeve Madigan , Alexandre Salas-Bernardez , Veronica Sanz , Maria Ubiali

The recent measurement of the branching ratio of $B^+ \to K^+ + \mathrm{inv}$ (where "inv" denotes invisible states) by the Belle~II collaboration is enhanced relative to the standard model expectation by 2.7$\sigma$. An older puzzle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya , Alakabha Datta , Girish Kumar , Danny Marfatia

We present a comprehensive study of axion-like particles (ALPs) in meson decays, combining effective field theory and ultraviolet models within the open-source tool ALPaca. The analysis accounts for running and matching effects across…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Jorge Alda , Marta Fuentes Zamoro , Luca Merlo , Xavier Ponce Díaz , Stefano Rigolin

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 present a new calculation of axion-like particle (ALP) production in the semi-exclusive photon-initiated (PI) channel, that is either with intact outgoing protons or rapidity gaps present in the final state, and with no colour flow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-23 L. A. Harland-Lang , M. Tasevsky

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), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

Axionlike particles (ALPs) emerge from spontaneously broken global symmetries in high energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This causes ALPs to be among the objectives of future experiments which intend to search for new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are one of the most widely discussed extensions of the Standard Model when it comes to the strong CP problem and dark matter candidates. Current experiments are focused on the indirect searches of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-12 Aleksandr Pustyntsev , Marc Vanderhaeghen

We propose a new search for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), targeting Vector Boson Scattering (VBS) processes at the LHC. We consider nonresonant ALP-mediated VBS, where the ALP participates as an off-shell mediator. This process occurs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-23 J. Bonilla , I. Brivio , J. Machado-Rodríguez , J. F. de Trocóniz

Opportunities for searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling to photons in $\mathrm{e}^+\mathrm{e}^-$ collisions at the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) and International Linear Collider (ILC) are investigated. We perform a study of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-28 Patricia Rebello Teles , David d'Enterria , Victor P. Gonçalves , Daniel E. Martins

We present a comprehensive study of axion-like particles (ALPs) through flavor changing neutral current processes, such as $B\to K a$ followed by $a\to\text{hadronic}, \gamma\gamma,\mu^+\mu^-$ channels. Our generic framework encompasses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-14 Deepanshu Bisht , Sabyasachi Chakraborty , Atanu Samanta