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We propose a novel method to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) at particle accelerator experiments (exps). ALPs produced at the target via the Primakoff effect subsequently enter a region with a magnetic field, where they are converted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Walter M. Bonivento , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha

The Sun is a well-studied astrophysical source of axion-like particles (ALPs), produced mainly through the Primakoff process. Moreover, in the Sun there exist large-scale magnetic fields that catalyze an additional ALP production via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-01 Ersilia Guarini , Pierluca Carenza , Javier Galan , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model (SM) that appear in many new physics scenarios, with masses spanning a broad range. In this work, we systematically study the production and detection prospects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Shou-shan Bao , Yang Ma , Yongcheng Wu , Keping Xie , Hong Zhang

High-energy photons may oscillate with axion-like particles (ALPs) when they propagate through the Milky Way's magnetic field, resulting in an alteration in the observed photon energy spectrum. The ultra-high energy gamma-ray spectra,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-04 Jun Li , Xiao-Jun Bi , Lin-Qing Gao , Xiaoyuan Huang , Run-Min Yao , Peng-Fei Yin

Experimental searches for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) which couple to the electroweak bosons span over a wide range of ALP masses, from MeV searches at beam-dump experiments, to TeV searches at the LHC. Here we examine an interesting range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-27 Noah Steinberg

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can be produced by thermal processes in a stellar interior, escape from the star and, if sufficiently light, be converted into photons in the external Galactic magnetic field. Such a process could produce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-27 Mengjiao Xiao , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi , Kerstin M. Perez , Oscar Straniero , Brian W. Grefenstette

We investigate how the photon polarization is affected by the interaction with axion-like particles (ALPs) in the rotating magnetic field of a neutron star (NS). Using quantum Boltzmann equations the study demonstrates that the periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei , Sabino Matarrese , Roberto Turolla

We revisit birefringence effects associated with the evolution of the polarization of light as it propagates through axion dark matter or the background of a passing gravitational wave (GW). We demonstrate that this can be described by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-16 Camilo García-Cely , Luca Marsili , Andreas Ringwald , Aaron D. Spector

The ALPS experiment at DESY searches for light particles which are coupling very weakly to photons. Primary physics goal is the search for axion like particles in a photon regeneration experiment. Central part of the experimental setup is a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-12-19 K. Ehret

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

We study magnetic conversion of ultra-relativistic axion-like particles (ALPs) into photons in compact-star environments, focusing on the hot, transient conditions of core-collapse supernova (SN) remnants and neutron-star mergers (NSMs). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Ángel Gil Muyor , Hans-Thomas Janka , Georg G. Raffelt , Edoardo Vitagliano

We consider possible experimental tests of recent hypotheses suggesting that TeV photons survive the pair production interaction with extragalactic background light over cosmological distances by converting to axion-like particles (ALPs) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. T. Avignone , R. J. Creswick , S. Nussinov

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model and are among the well-motivated candidates for dark matter. In the presence of magnetic fields of galaxy clusters, Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Harsh Mehta , Anaya Dixit , Suvodip Mukherjee , Joseph Silk

Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to nucleons can be efficiently produced in core-collapse supernovae (SNe) and then, if they couple to photons, convert into gamma rays in cosmic magnetic fields, generating short gamma-ray bursts. Though…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Francesca Lecce , Alessandro Lella , Giuseppe Lucente , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

We explore the axion-like particle (ALP)-photon oscillation effect in the $\gamma$-ray spectra of the blazars Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) and PG 1553+113, which are measured by the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (MAGIC)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Hai-Jun Li , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields. This effect may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as AGNs. Here we carry out a detailed study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-31 M. A. Sanchez-Conde , D. Paneque , E. Bloom , F. Prada , A. Dominguez

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang

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

In this work we propose reactoscope, a novel experimental setup for axion-like particle (ALP) searches. Nuclear reactors produce a copious number of photons, a fraction of which could convert into ALPs via Primakoff process in the reactor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Fernando Arias-Aragón , Vedran Brdar , Jérémie Quevillon