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Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons can quantum mechanically interconvert when propagating through magnetic fields, and ALP-photon conversion may induce oscillatory features in the spectra of astrophysical sources. We use deep (370 ks),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-27 M. C. David Marsh , Helen R. Russell , Andrew C. Fabian , Brian R. McNamara , Paul Nulsen , Christopher S. Reynolds

We consider freeze-in production of 7 keV axino dark matter (DM) in the supersymmetric Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky (DFSZ) model in light of the 3.5 keV line excess. The warmness of such 7 keV DM produced from the thermal bath, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-02 Kyu Jung Bae , Ayuki Kamada , Seng Pei Liew , Keisuke Yanagi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can oscillate to photons and vice versa in electromagnetic fields. The photon-ALP oscillation provides an attractive solution to the apparent transparency of the Universe to TeV photons. The allowed parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Yun-Feng Liang , Cun Zhang , Zi-Qing Xia , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

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

We perform a feasibility study to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) using vector boson fusion (VBF) processes at the LHC. We work in an effective field theory framework with cutoff scale $\Lambda$ and ALP mass $m_{a}$, and assume that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Andrés Flórez , Alfredo Gurrola , Will Johns , Paul Sheldon , Elijah Sheridan , Kuver Sinha , Brandon Soubasis

Axions and axion-like particles are compelling candidates for the missing dark matter of the universe. As they undergo gravitational collapse, they can form compact objects such as axion stars or even black holes. In this paper, we study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 James Y. Widdicombe , Thomas Helfer , David J. E. Marsh , Eugene A. Lim

We study the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in association with electrons and neutrinos in the muon decay process. For this purpose, we compute the decay width of the muon to a four-body channel using a $d=7$ effective operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-12 Ankita Budhraja , Samadrita Mukherjee , Sahana Narasimha

We provide a fresh look at the cosmological constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple predominantly to photons, focusing on lifetimes $\tau_{a} \lesssim 10^{4}\, {\rm s}$ and masses $m_a\lesssim 10\,{\rm GeV}$. We consider Big…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Miguel Escudero , Clara Garcia-Perez , Maksym Ovchynnikov

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

We evaluate discovery prospects for photophobic axion-like particles (ALPs) in the $WWjj$ final state at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC; $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV, $L=3$ ab$^{-1}$). In the photophobic limit ($g_{a\gamma\gamma}=0$), ALPs couple to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-27 Jiaojiao Feng , Ying-nan Mao , Kechen Wang

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

Although axion-like particles (ALPs) are popular dark matter candidates, their mass generation mechanisms as well as cosmic thermal evolutions are still unclear. In this letter, we propose a new mass generation mechanism of ALP during the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-25 Wei Chao , Mingjie Jin , Hai-Jun Li , Ying-Quan Peng

The nature of dark matter is an unsolved cosmological problem and axions are one of the weakly interacting cold dark matter candidates. Axions or ALPs (Axion-like particles) are pseudo-scalar bosons predicted by beyond-standard model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear from spontaneous global symmetry breaking in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we find bounds on ALP ($a$) model parameters at the LHC from the ALP production associated with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Javad Ebadi , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We study the possibility of finding the axion-like particles (ALPs) through the leptonic decays of heavy mesons. The Standard Model (SM) predictions of the branching ratios of the leptonic decays of heavy mesons are less than the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Gang Yang , Tianhong Wang , Guo-Li Wang

We give updated constraints on hypothetical light bosons with a two-photon coupling such as axions or axion-like particles (ALPs). We focus on masses and lifetimes where decays happen near big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), thus altering the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Marius Millea , Lloyd Knox , Brian Fields

Elucidating the particle physics nature of dark matter (DM) is one of the great challenges in modern science. The current lack of any direct DM detections in the laboratory heightens the need for astrophysical constraints, extending the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-07 James M. Sullivan , Shingo Hirano , Volker Bromm

The primordial black holes (PBHs) play as a novel source to radiate light elementary particles of energies in the region of a few hundred MeV. We explore the possibility that the axion-like particles (ALPs) with mass less than 1 MeV are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Tong Li , Rui-Jia Zhang

Many existing and proposed experiments targeting QCD axion dark matter (DM) can also search for a broad class of axion-like particles (ALPs). We analyze the experimental sensitivities to electromagnetically-coupled ALP DM in different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Nikita Blinov , Matthew J. Dolan , Patrick Draper , Jonathan Kozaczuk

We present a new bound on the ultra-light axion (ULA) dark matter mass $m_\text{a}$, using the Lyman-alpha forest to look for suppressed cosmic structure growth: a 95% lower limit $m_\text{a} > 2 \times 10^{-20}\,\text{eV}$. This strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Keir K. Rogers , Hiranya V. Peiris
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