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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

The axion-like particle (ALP)-photon mixing in the magnetic field around $\gamma$-ray sources or along the line-of-sight could induce oscillation between photons and ALPs, which then causes irregularities in the $\gamma$-ray spectra. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Cun Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Shang Li , Neng-Hui Liao , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Zhong-Zhou Ren

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), if exist in nature, are expected to mix with photons in the presence of an external magnetic field. The energy range of photons which undergo strong mixing with ALPs depends on the ALP mass, on its coupling with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-13 Olga Mena , Soebur Razzaque

The interaction between axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons induces ALP-photon oscillations in astrophysical magnetic fields, leading to spectral distortions in the $\gamma$-ray spectrum of blazars. The primary uncertainty of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 Lin-Qing Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Jun Li , Peng-Fei Yin

The oscillation of photons and axion-like particles (ALPs) in the astrophysical magnetic fields could modify the measured very high energy (VHE; $\mathcal{E}\gtrsim 100\, \rm GeV$) $\gamma$-ray spectra of the blazar sources. In this paper,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Hai-Jun Li

We investigate the axion like particle (ALP)-photon oscillation effect in the high energy $\gamma$-ray spectra of PG 1553+113 and PKS 2155-304 measured by Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S.. The choice of extragalactic background light (EBL) model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-05 Junguang Guo , Hai-Jun Li , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

In this work, we investigate the axion-like particle (ALP)-photon oscillation effect in the spectra of the blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) using 4.5 years of the Astrophysical Radiation with Ground-based Observatory at YangBaJing (ARGO-YBJ)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-07 Hai-Jun Li , Jun-Guang Guo , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

The surprising discovery by MAGIC of an intense, rapidly varying emission in the energy range 70 - 400 GeV from the flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1222+216 represents a challenge for all interpretative scenarios. Indeed, in order to avoid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 F. Tavecchio , M. Roncadelli , G. Galanti , G. Bonnoli

Well-motivated extensions of the standard model predict ultra-light and fundamental pseudo-scalar particles (e.g., axions or axion-like particles: ALPs). Similarly to the Primakoff-effect for axions, ALPs can mix with photons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns

Axionlike-particles (ALPs) are one promising type of dark matter candidate particle that may generate detectable effects on $\gamma$-ray spectra other than the canonical weakly interacting massive particles. In this work we search for such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Zi-Qing Xia , Cun Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Jian Wu

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

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

We report the detection of a gamma-ray spectral line at approximately 1.5 GeV in three active galactic nuclei (AGN) using 17 years of Fermi-LAT observations. The sample includes both blazars (with relativistic jets directed toward Earth)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Shi-Ju Kang , Yue Yin , Yong-Gang Zheng , Qingwen Wu

Photon-axion-like particle (ALP) oscillations result in the survival of gamma rays from distant sources above TeV energies. Studies of events observed by CAST, Fermi-LAT, and IACT have constrained the ALP parameters. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Bhanu Prakash Pant , Sunanda , Reetanjali Moharana , Sarathykanan S

We consider the largest observed sample including all intermediate-frequency peaked (IBL) and high-frequency peaked (HBL) flaring blazars above 100 GeV up to redshift $z = 0.6$. We show that the best-fit regression line of the emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli , Alessandro De Angelis , Giovanni F. Bignami

D. Wouters and P. Brun in Phys. Rev. D 86, 043005 (2012) claim that an observable effect in the spectra of distant very-high-energy blazars arises as a consequence of oscillations of photons into axion-like particles (ALPs) in the presence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-27 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

Oscillations between axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons in astrophysical magnetic fields can lead to irregularities in the high energy gamma ray spectra of blazars. The magnetic field within the blazar jet plays a crucial role in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Ting Zhou , Lin-Qing Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Wenbin Lin

High energy photons traveling through astrophysical magnetic fields have the potential to undergo oscillations with axion-like particles (ALPs), resulting in modifications to the observed photon spectrum. High energy $\gamma-$ray sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-20 Jun Li , Xiao-Jun Bi , Lin-Qing Gao , Peng-Fei Yin

We investigate the photon-axionlike particle (ALP) oscillation effects on TeV gamma-ray spectral irregularities from the uncertain redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) VER J0521+211. The gamma-ray spectra are measured by Fermi-LAT and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Hai-Jun Li , Wei Chao

Axion like particles (ALPs) are fundamental pseudo scalar particles with properties similar to Axions which are a well-known extension of the standard model to solve the strong CP problem in Quantum Chromodynamics. ALPs can oscillate into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-30 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns
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