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Dark matter may consist of axion-like particles (ALPs). When polarized electromagnetic radiation passes through the dark-matter media, interaction with background ALPs affects the polarization of photons. The condensate of axionic dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 D. Davydov , Alexander Libanov

There are broadly three channels to probe axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in the laboratory: through their subsequent decay to Standard Model (SM) particles, their scattering with SM particles, or their subsequent conversion to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-20 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model, and their masses can naturally be well below the electroweak scale. In the presence of couplings to electroweak bosons, these particles could be emitted in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-04 The BABAR Collaboration

Axion-like particles (ALPs) produced via the Primakoff process in the cores of Galactic core-collapse supernovae (SNe) could convert into MeV-energy gamma-rays through interactions with the Milky Way's magnetic field. To evaluate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Zhen Xie , Jiahao Liu , Bing Liu , Ruizhi Yang

We study prospects to detect axion-like particles (ALPs) with the upcoming near-infrared telescope SPHEREx. The signal under investigation is the ALP decay into two photons. Assuming dark matter (DM) to be in the form of ALPs, we analyze…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Marco Regis , Marco Taoso , Jorge Terol Calvo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a promising direction in the search for new physics, while a wide range of models incorporate ALPs. We point out that future neutrino experiments, such as DUNE, possess competitive sensitivity to ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Vedran Brdar , Bhaskar Dutta , Wooyoung Jang , Doojin Kim , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Adrian Thompson , Jaehoon Yu

If axion-like particles (ALPs) exist, photons can convert to ALPs on passage through regions containing magnetic fields. The magnetised intracluster medium of large galaxy clusters provides a region that is highly efficient at ALP-photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Linhan Chen , Joseph P. Conlon

In this work, we have explored a practical extension of the conventional light-shining-through-walls technique by making direct use of the high-intensity $\gamma$-ray beam available at a $\gamma$-$\gamma$ collider. The energetic and highly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-18 Zi-Yao Yan , Jie Feng

Axion-like particles (ALPs) with couplings to electromagnetism have long been postulated as extensions to the Standard Model. String theory predicts an "axiverse" of many light axions, some of which may make up the dark matter in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-17 Zachary Bogorad , Anson Hook , Yonatan Kahn , Yotam Soreq

Limits on spin-0 axion-like-particles (ALPs) coupling to photons are reinterpreted as constraints on massive spin-2 graviton-like-particles (GLPs) with universal coupling $\alpha_\text{G}/M_\text{P}$ (where $M_\text{P}$ is the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Jordan Gué , David d'Enterria

Many theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics predict the existence of axionlike particles (ALPs) that mix with photons in the presence of a magnetic field. Searching for the effects of ALP-photon mixing in gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-24 James Davies , Manuel Meyer , Garret Cotter

Physics beyond the Standard Model predicts the possible existence of new particles that can be searched at the low energy frontier in the sub-eV range. The OSQAR photon regeneration experiment looks for "Light Shining through a Wall" from…

The detection of very high-energy neutrinos by IceCube experiment supports the existence of a comparable gamma-ray counterpart from the same cosmic accelerators. Under the likely assumption that the sources of these particles are of…

We search for dark matter in the form of axionlike particles (ALPs) in the mass range $5.576741 \,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ - $5.577733\,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ by probing their possible coupling to fermion spins through the ALP field gradient. This is…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) may undergo mixing with photons in the presence of astrophysical magnetic fields, leading to alterations in the observed high energy $\gamma$-ray spectra. In this study, we investigate the ALP-photon oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-06 Lin-Qing Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Jun-Guang Guo , Wenbin Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

Very high energy (VHE, energy >~ 100 GeV) {\gamma}-rays originating from extragalactic sources interact with low energy photons of background radiation fields and produce electron-positron pairs. Alternatively, in the presence of ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-28 Manuel Meyer , Dieter Horns , Luca Maccione , Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino , Marco Roncadelli

Sub-eV axion-like particles (ALPs) have been searched for by focusing two-color near-infrared pulse lasers into a vacuum along a common optical axis. Within the focused quasi-parallel collision system created by combining a creation field…

We investigate the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in stellar cores, where they interact with electromagnetic fields and electrons, with typical masses between $\mathcal O(0.1)$ and $\mathcal O(10)$ keV. These low-energy ALPs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-13 Yu-Xuan Chen , Lei Lei , Zi-Qing Xia , Ziwei Wang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a common prediction of several extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics and could be detected through their coupling to photons, which enables ALP-photon conversions in external magnetic fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Francesco Schiavone , Leonardo Di Venere , Francesco Giordano

We propose a mechanism generating primordial magnetic fields after the $e^+e^-$ annihilations. Our mechanism involves an ultra-light axion-like particle (ALP) which constitutes the dark matter, and a dark $U(1)_X$ gauge boson introduced to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-25 Kiwoon Choi , Hyungjin Kim , Toyokazu Sekiguchi