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Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear in various new physics models with spontaneous global symmetry breaking. When the ALP mass is in the range of MeV to GeV, the cosmology and astrophysics bounds are so far quite weak. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Jie Ren , Daohan Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Mengchao Zhang

Presented is the search for anomalous Higgs boson decays into two axion-like particles (ALPs) using the full Run 2 data set of 140 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-18 ATLAS Collaboration

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken global symmetries in high-energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This makes them a prime target for future experiments aiming to discover new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Martin Bauer , Mathias Heiles , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

We assume the coupling of Axion-like particle (ALP) to diphoton $g_{a\gamma\gamma} \sim 0$ and accomplish detailed analyses for the $\gamma Z$ decay mode of such heavy photophobic ALPs at the high luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Zilong Ding , Ying-nan Mao , Kechen Wang

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are one of the most widely discussed extensions of the Standard Model when it comes to the strong CP problem and dark matter candidates. Current experiments are focused on the indirect searches of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-12 Aleksandr Pustyntsev , Marc Vanderhaeghen

We show that ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions at the LHC can be used to search for axion-like particles with mass below 100 GeV. The $Z^4$ enhanced photon-photon luminosity from the ions provides a large exclusive production rate, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-05 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Hou Keong Lou , Tom Melia

We study the discovery potential of massive graviton-like spin-2 particles coupled to standard model fields, produced in photon-photon collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as well as in electron-positron ($e^+e^-$) collisions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 David d'Enterria , Malak Ait Tamlihat , Laurent Schoeffel , Hua-Sheng Shao , Yahya Tayalati

The first FASER search for a light, long-lived particle decaying into a pair of photons is reported. The search uses LHC proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13.6~\text{TeV}$ collected in 2022 and 2023, corresponding to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-18 FASER collaboration , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Xiaocong Ai , John Anders , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Jeremy Atkinson , Florian U. Bernlochner , Emma Bianchi , Tobias Boeckh , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Angela Burger , Franck Cadoux , Roberto Cardella , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Xin Chen , Eunhyung Cho , Dhruv Chouhan , Andrea Coccaro , Stephane Débieux , Monica D'Onofrio , Ansh Desai , Sergey Dmitrievsky , Radu Dobre , Sinead Eley , Yannick Favre , Deion Fellers , Jonathan L. Feng , Carlo Alberto Fenoglio , Didier Ferrere , Max Fieg , Wissal Filali , Elena Firu , Edward Galantay , Ali Garabaglu , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Yuri Gornushkin , Carl Gwilliam , Daiki Hayakawa , Michael Holzbock , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Luca Iodice , Sune Jakobsen , Hans Joos , Enrique Kajomovitz , Hiroaki Kawahara , Alex Keyken , Felix Kling , Daniela Köck , Pantelis Kontaxakis , Umut Kose , Rafaella Kotitsa , Susanne Kuehn , Thanushan Kugathasan , Lorne Levinson , Ke Li , Jinfeng Liu , Yi Liu , Margaret S. Lutz , Jack MacDonald , Chiara Magliocca , Toni Mäkelä , Lawson McCoy , Josh McFayden , Andrea Pizarro Medina , Matteo Milanesio , Théo Moretti , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Laurie Nevay , Ken Ohashi , Hidetoshi Otono , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Brian Petersen , Titi Preda , Markus Prim , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Hiroki Rokujo , André Rubbia , Jorge Sabater-Iglesias , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Anna Sfyrla , Davide Sgalaberna , Mansoora Shamim , Savannah Shively , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Ondrej Theiner , Eric Torrence , Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez , Svetlana Vasina , Benedikt Vormwald , Di Wang , Yuxiao Wang , Eli Welch , Yue Xu , Samuel Zahorec , Stefano Zambito , Shunliang Zhang

This article describes a search for low-mass axion-like particles (ALPs) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). If ALPs were produced at the LHC via gluon-gluon fusion and decayed to bosons, the energy dependence of the measured diboson…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-29 Sonia Carra , Vincent Goumarre , Ruchi Gupta , Sarah Heim , Beate Heinemann , Jan Kuechler , Federico Meloni , Pablo Quilez , Yee-Chinn Yap

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global symmetries emerging in many extensions of the Standard Model. Assuming the most general effective Lagrangian up to dimension-5…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-08 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Daruosh Haji Raissi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

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 propose a new collider probe for axion-like particles (ALPs), and more generally for pseudo-Goldstone bosons: non-resonant searches which take advantage of the derivative nature of their interactions with Standard Model particles. ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 M. B. Gavela , J. M. No , V. Sanz , J. F. de Trocóniz

The possibility of searching for long-lived axion-like particles (ALPs) decaying into photons is investigated in ultraperipheral $PbPb$ collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We propose a search strategy for low mass ALPs using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Pedro Nogarolli , Victor P. Gonçalves , Murilo S. Rangel

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a broad class of pseudo-scalar bosons that generically arise from broken symmetries in extensions of the standard model. In many scenarios, ALPs can mix with photons in regions with high magnetic fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 Sunniva Jacobsen , Tim Linden , Katherine Freese

A search has been performed for heavy resonances decaying to ZZ or ZW and for axion-like particles (ALPs) mediating nonresonant ZZ or ZH production, in final states with two charged leptons ($\ell$ = e, $\mu$) produced by the decay of a Z…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-22 CMS Collaboration

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) are a generic, calculable, and well motivated extension of the Standard Model with far reaching phenomenology. ALPs that couple only to hypercharge represent one subset of such models, coupling the ALP to both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Noah Steinberg , James D. Wells

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

The axion-like particle (ALP) is a well motivated new particle candidate of beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we propose to probe the ALP through the photon fusion scattering at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Yandong Liu , Bin Yan

The production of axionlike particles (ALP) in ultraperipheral $PbPb$ collisions (UPHIC) is investigated considering the energies of the next run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and of the future High Energy -- LHC (HE -- LHC) and Future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 R. O. Coelho , V. P. Goncalves , D. E. Martins , M. S. Rangel