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Axionlike particles (ALPs), hypothetical particles beyond the Standard Model, are considered as promising dark matter candidates. ALPs can convert into photons and vice versa in a magnetic field via the Primakoff effect, potentially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Zhi-Qi Guo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Lei Wu , Zi-Qing Xia

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can be naturally lighter than the electroweak scale. We consider an ALP that couples to the Standard Model Higgs to achieve the strong first-order electroweak phase transition. We discuss the two-field dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 Keisuke Harigaya , Isaac R. Wang

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) remain highly motivated extensions to the standard model due to their ability to address open questions such as the relic abundance of dark matter and the strong CP problem. Axions are also capable of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-22 Bryce Cyr , Jens Chluba , Pranav Bharadwaj Gangrekalve Manoj

Production of axionlike particles (ALPs) by primordial magnetic fields may have significant impacts on cosmology. We discuss the production of ALPs in the presence of the primordial magnetic fields. We find a region of the ALP mass and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-09 Kohei Kamada , Yuichiro Nakai

In this work, we extend the standard pre-inflationary misalignment mechanism for axion-like particles (ALPs) by introducing a pre-oscillatory phase with constant equation of state $\omega_\phi\in[-1,1]$, generated by a tracking potential.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 José María Pérez-Poyatos

Compact objects such as neutron stars and white dwarfs can source axion-like particles and QCD axions due to CP-violating axion-fermion couplings. The magnitude of the axion field depends on the stellar density and on the strength of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-18 Filippo Anzuini , Antonio Gómez-Bañón , José A. Pons , Andrew Melatos , Paul D. Lasky

We propose a search for long lived axion-like particles (ALPs) in exotic top decays. Flavour-violating ALPs appear as low energy effective theories for various new physics scenarios such as t-channel dark sectors or Froggatt-Nielsen models.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-21 Adrian Carmona , Fatemeh Elahi , Christiane Scherb , Pedro Schwaller

We use multimessenger observations of the neutron star merger event GW170817 to derive new constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling to photons. ALPs are produced via Primakoff and photon coalescence processes in the merger,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-24 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Jean-François Fortin , Steven P. Harris , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

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

The parameter space of massive axion-like-particles (ALPs) with $m_a \sim {\mathcal O} (100)$ MeV and coupled with nucleons is largely unexplored. Here, we present new constraints in this parameter region. In doing so, we characterize the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-11 Alessandro Lella , Pierluca Carenza , Giuseppe Lucente , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

Axion-like particles are dark matter candidates motivated by the Peccei-Quinn mechanism and also occur in effective field theories where their masses and photon couplings are independent. We estimate the dispersion of circularly polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Günter Sigl , Pranjal Trivedi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are attracting increasing interest since, among other things, they are a prediction of many extensions of the standard model of elementary particles physics and in particular of superstrings and superbranes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-23 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

We present new constraints on ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) through multi-epoch measurements of differential birefringence induced due to a coupling ($g_{a\gamma}$) between the ALP and electromagnetic fields. Broadband polarimetric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Shivani Deshmukh , Aritra Basu , Dominik J. Schwarz , Yuko Urakawa , Sui Ann Mao

We study the cosmology and astrophysics of axion-like particles (ALPs) with CP-violating Yukawa couplings to nucleons. At finite nucleon density, the ALP's dynamics is governed by an effective potential which is the sum of the bare periodic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-06 Omar F. Ramadan , Jeremy Sakstein , Djuna Croon

Dark matter comprised of axion-like particles (ALPs) generated by the realignment mechanism in the post-inflationary scenario leads to primordial isocurvature fluctuations. The power spectrum of these fluctuations is flat for small wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Martin Feix , Steffen Hagstotz , Andreas Pargner , Robert Reischke , Bjoern Malte Schaefer , Thomas Schwetz

The existence of axion-like particles (ALPs) can be probed from their signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) due to the photon-ALP resonant conversion over the mass range of ALPs that matches with the effective mass of photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-22 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

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 discuss axion-like particles (ALPs) within the framework of Higgs Effective Field Theory, targeting instances of close alignment of ALP physics with a custodial singlet character of the Higgs boson. We tension constraints arising from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-22 Anisha , Supratim Das Bakshi , Christoph Englert , Panagiotis Stylianou

Axionlike particles (ALPs) emerge from spontaneously broken global symmetries in high energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This causes ALPs to be among the objectives of future experiments which intend to search for new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi