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The absence of definitive results for WIMP dark matter has sparked growing interest in alternative dark matter candidates, such as axions and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), which also provide insight into the strong CP problem. The Mitchell…

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) appear in many extensions of the Standard Model and are being investigated as promising dark matter (DM) candidates. One viable methodology for their detection involves the investigation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-18 Wen-Qing Guo , Zi-Qing Xia , Xiaoyuan Huang

The pseudoscalar-photon mixing in presence of large scale magnetic field induces polarization in light from distant cosmological sources. We study the effect of these pseudoscalars or axion like particles (ALPs) on Cosmic Microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-04 Prabhakar Tiwari

The extragalactic background light is comprised of the cumulative radiation from all galaxies across the history of the universe. The angular power spectrum of the anisotropies of such a background at near-infrared (IR) frequencies lacks of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-20 Andrea Caputo , Andrea Vittino , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis , Marco Taoso

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) are promising dark matter candidates. Their signals in direct detection experiments arise from the well-known inverse Primakoff effect or the inverse Compton scattering of the ALPs with the electron. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-17 Wei Chao , Jing-Jing Feng , Ming-Jie Jin

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

New limits on the axion-nucleon coupling over the axion mass region $10^{-24} \leq m_a \leq 5 \times 10^{-21}$ eV are derived by reanalyzing data from laboratory measurements on Lorentz and $CPT$ violation. These results establish the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 K. Y. Zhang , L. Y. Wu , H. Yan

We study the sensitivity of past and future stopped-pion experiments to light, invisible dark sector particles produced in exotic pion decays. We consider two-body decays involving sterile neutrinos, $\pi^+ \to \ell^+ N$, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Jeff A. Dror , Pierce Giffin , Stefania Gori , Ollie Jackson , Khai Luong , Patrick Schwendimann , Se Rang Seo

We present a new constraint for the axion monopole-dipole coupling in the range of 1 micrometer to a few millimeters, previously unavailable for experimental study. The constraint was obtained using our recent results on the observation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Baessler , V. V. Nesvizhevsky , K. V. Protasov , A. Yu. Voronin

Burrage, Davis, and Shaw recently suggested exploiting the correlations between high and low energy luminosities of astrophysical objects to probe possible mixing between photons and axion-like particles (ALP) in magnetic field regions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Guido Walter Pettinari , Robert Crittenden

The growing interest in axion-like particles (ALPs) stems from the fact that they provide successful theoretical explanations of physics phenomena, from the anomaly of the CP-symmetry conservation in strong interactions to the observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Ivana Batković , Alessandro De Angelis , Michele Doro , Marina Manganaro

We propose a three-beam stimulated resonant photon collider with focused laser fields in order to directly produce an axion-like particle (ALP) with the two beams and to stimulate its decay by the remaining one. The expected sensitivity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-05 Kensuke Homma , Fumiya Ishibashi , Yuri Kirita , Takumi Hasada

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are very light, neutral, spin zero bosons predicted by many theories which try to complete the standard model of elementary particles. ALPs interact primarily with two photons and can generate photon-ALP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-09 Giorgio Galanti

Hypothetical axion-like particles (ALPs) are of interest because of their potential to act as dark matter or to reveal information about yet undiscovered fundamental constituents of matter. Such particles can be created when photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Denys Malyshev , Lidiia Zadorozhna , Yuriy Bidasyuk , Andrea Santangelo , Oleg Ruchayskiy

Axion-like particles (ALP) can in principle be produced in very hot and dense astrophysical environments, escape from the extreme object where such conditions are met, and then be converted in gamma--rays in the magnetic fields intervening…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Fabio Iocco

Recently it has been pointed out that a cosmic background of relativistic axion-like particles (ALPs) would be produced by the primordial decays of heavy fields in the post-inflation epoch, contributing to the extra-radiation content in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Carmelo Evoli , Matteo Leo , Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino

Several laboratory experiments have published limits on axionlike particles (ALPs) with feeble couplings to electrons and masses in the keV-MeV range, under the assumption that such ALPs comprise the dark matter. We note that ALPs decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-15 Ricardo Z. Ferreira , M. C. David Marsh , Eike Müller

In hidden-sector models, axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), leading to rich phenomenologies. We study ALPs produced from $D$- and $B$-meson decays via quark-flavor-violating couplings, and decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang , Wei Liu

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