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Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a compelling avenue for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model. In astrophysical magnetized plasmas an ALP-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma}$ induces energy-dependent oscillations in the photon survival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Yu Zhou , Jiejia Liu , Volodymyr Takhistov , Kazuhisa Mitsuda

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a broad class of pseudo-scalar bosons that generically arise from broken symmetries in extensions of the standard model. In many scenarios, ALPs can mix with photons in regions with high magnetic fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 Sunniva Jacobsen , Tim Linden , Katherine Freese

Axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates whose coupling to photons induces periodic oscillations in the polarization angle of astrophysical light. This work reports the first search for such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Qiu-Ju Huang , Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) rotate the linear polarization of photons through the ALP-photon coupling and convert the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $E$-mode to the $B$-mode. We derive the relation between the ALP dynamics and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 Tomohiro Fujita , Yuto Minami , Kai Murai , Hiromasa Nakatsuka

Axion-like particles (ALPs), hypothetical extensions of the Standard Model, can convert into photons in an external magnetic field. Two recent studies~\cite{Todarello:2023ptf, Ruz:2024gkl} explored the phenomenology of ALP-photon conversion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Elisa Todarello

Quiescent hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emission from neutron stars constitute a promising frontier to explore axion-like-particles (ALPs). ALP production in the core peaks at energies of a few keV to a few hundreds of keV; subsequently,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-19 Jean-François Fortin , Huai-Ke Guo , Steven P. Harris , Elijah Sheridan , Kuver Sinha

A resonantly-enhanced photon-regeneration experiment to search for the axion or axion-like particles is described. This experiment is a shining light through walls study, where photons travelling through a strong magnetic field are (in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Guido Mueller , Pierre Sikivie , D. B. Tanner , Karl van Bibber

Axions or ALPs are hypothetical particles predicted by BSM theories, which make one of the dark matter candidates. These particles can convert into photons and vice-versa in the presence of magnetic field, with a probability decided by its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model and give rise to characteristic dimming and polarization effects in a light beam travelling in a magnetic field. In this Letter, we demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandro De Angelis , Oriana Mansutti , Marco Roncadelli

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

We use the first observation of Betelgeuse in hard $X$-rays to perform a novel search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Betelgeuse is not expected to be a standard source of $X$-rays, but light ALPs produced in the stellar core could be…

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are very light, neutral, spin zero bosons predicted by superstring theory. ALPs interact primarily with two photons and in the presence of an external magnetic field they generate photon-ALP oscillations and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-29 Giorgio Galanti

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

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

Coupling of axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) with photons may lead to photons escaping optically opaque regions by oscillating into ALPs. This phenomenon may be viewed as the Light Shining through Wall (LSW) scenario. While this LSW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-27 Dibya S. Chattopadhyay , Basudeb Dasgupta , Amol Dighe , Mayank Narang

We examine the resonant conversion of axion-like particle (ALP) or dark photon to the electromagnetic photon in the early Universe, which takes place due to the ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations in background dark photon gauge fields. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Kiwoon Choi , Hyeonseok Seong , Seokhoon Yun

Ultra-light axion-like particles (ALPs) can be a viable solution to the dark matter problem. The scalar field associated with ALPs, coupled to the electromagnetic field, acts as an active birefringent medium, altering the polarisation…

Axion Like Particles (ALPs), postulated to solve the strong-CP problem, are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields, which may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-13 Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , David Paneque , Elliott D. Bloom , Francisco Prada , Alberto Dominguez

The intrinsic flux of very high energy (VHE, Energy > 100 GeV) gamma-rays from extragalactic sources is attenuated due to pair production in the interaction with photons of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Depending on the distance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-08 Manuel Meyer , Dieter Horns , Martin Raue