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Constraints on axionlike particles with H.E.S.S. from the irregularity of the PKS 2155-304 energy spectrum

Axionlike particles (ALPs) are hypothetical light (sub-eV) bosons predicted in some extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In astrophysical environments comprising high-energy gamma rays and turbulent magnetic fields, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-19 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , A. Abramowski , F. Acero , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , A. G. Akhperjanian , E. Angüner , G. Anton , S. Balenderan , A. Balzer , A. Barnacka , Y. Becherini , J. Becker Tjus , K. Bernlöhr , E. Birsin , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , P. Bordas , J. Brucker , F. Brun , P. Brun , T. Bulik , S. Carrigan , S. Casanova , M. Cerruti , P. M. Chadwick , R. Chalme-Calvet , R. C. G. Chaves , A. Cheesebrough , M. Chrétien , S. Colafrancesco , G. Cologna , J. Conrad , C. Couturier , M. Dalton , M. K. Daniel , I. D. Davids , B. Degrange , C. Deil , P. deWilt , H. J. Dickinson , A. Djannati-Ataï , W. Domainko , L. O'C. Drury , G. Dubus , K. Dutson , J. Dyks , M. Dyrda , T. Edwards K. Egberts , P. Eger , P. Espigat , C. Farnier , S. Fegan , F. Feinstein , M. V. Fernandes , D. Fernandez , A. Fiasson , G. Fontaine , A. Förster , M. Füssling , M. Gajdus , Y. A. Gallant , T. Garrigoux , H. Gast , B. Giebels , J. F. Glicenstein , D. Göring , M. -H. Grondin , M. Grudzińska , S. Häffner , J. D. Hague , J. Hahn , J. Harris , G. Heinzelmann , G. Henri , G. Hermann , O. Hervet , A. Hillert , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , P. Hofverberg , M. Holler , D. Horns , A. Jacholkowska , C. Jahn , M. Jamrozy , M. Janiak , F. Jankowsky , I. Jung , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzyński , U. Katz , S. Kaufmann , B. Khélifi , M. Kieffer , S. Klepser , D. Klochkov , W. Kluźniak , T. Kneiske , D. Kolitzus , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , S. Krakau , F. Krayzel , P. P. Krüger , H. Laffon , G. Lamanna , J. Lefaucheur , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , D. Lennarz , T. Lohse , A. Lopatin , C. -C. Lu , V. Marandon , A. Marcowith , R. Marx , G. Maurin , N. Maxted , M. Mayer , T. J. L. McComb , M. C. Medina , J. Méhault , U. Menzler , M. Meyer , R. Moderski , M. Mohamed , E. Moulin , T. Murach , C. L. Naumann , M. de Naurois , D. Nedbal , J. Niemiec , S. J. Nolan , L. Oakes , S. Ohm , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , B. Opitz , M. Ostrowski , I. Oya , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , M. Paz Arribas , N. W. Pekeur , G. Pelletier , J. Perez , P. -O. Petrucci , B. Peyaud , S. Pita , H. Poon , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , M. Raue , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , R. de los Reyes , F. Rieger , L. Rob , S. Rosier-Lees , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , C. B. Rulten , V. Sahakian , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , R. Schlickeiser , F. Schüssler , A. Schulz , U. Schwanke , S. Schwarzburg , S. Schwemmer , H. Sol , G. Spengler , F. Spies , L. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , F. Stinzing , K. Stycz , I. Sushch , A. Szostek , J. -P. Tavernet , R. Terrier , M. Tluczykont , C. Trichard , K. Valerius , C. van Eldik , G. Vasileiadis , C. Venter , A. Viana , P. Vincent , H. J. Völk , F. Volpe , M. Vorster , S. J. Wagner , P. Wagner , M. Ward , M. Weidinger , Q. Weitzel , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , P. Willmann , A. Wörnlein , D. Wouters , M. Zacharias , A. Zajczyk , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. -S. Zechlin

Single-Point Search for eV-scale Axion-like particles with Variable-Angle Three-Beam Stimulated Resonant Photon Collider

We report a laboratory search for axion-like particles (ALPs) in the eV-mass range using a variable-angle three-beam stimulated resonant photon collider. The scheme independently focuses and collides three laser beams, providing a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-05 Takumi Hasada , Kensuke Homma , Airi Kodama , Haruhiko Nishizaki , Yuri Kirita , Shin-ichiro Masuno , Shigeki Tokita , Masaki Hashida

Search for Higgs boson decays into pairs of light (pseudo)scalar particles in the $\gamma\gamma jj$ final state in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

This Letter presents a search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of new (pseudo)scalar particles, $H\to aa$, where the $a$ particle has a mass in the range 20-60 GeV, and where one of the $a$ bosons decays into a pair of photons…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-27 ATLAS Collaboration

Hadron Collider Searches for Diboson Resonances

This review covers results of searches for new elementary particles that decay into boson pairs (dibosons), performed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at 7-, 8-,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-05 Tommaso Dorigo

Search for heavy resonances decaying into a $W$ or $Z$ boson and a Higgs boson in final states with leptons and $b$-jets in 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt s = 13$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search is conducted for new resonances decaying into a $W$ or $Z$ boson and a 125 GeV Higgs boson in the $\nu\bar{\nu}b\bar{b}$, $\ell^{\pm}{\nu}b\bar{b}$, and $\ell^+\ell^-b\bar{b}$ final states, where $\ell^{\pm}= e^{\pm}$ or…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-16 ATLAS Collaboration

Search for an axion-like particle in radiative $J/\psi$ decays

We search for an axion-like particle (ALP) $a$ through the process $\psi(3686)\rightarrow\pi^+\pi^-J/\psi$, $J/\psi\rightarrow\gamma a$, $a\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$ in a data sample of $(2.71\pm0.01)\times10^9$ $\psi(3686)$ events collected…

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Searches for axion-like particles in proton-proton and ion-ion collisions at energies in the center of mass system of 5.02 TeV and 13 TeV

As part of experimental measurements by the ATLAS collaboration during 2015 and 2018 years of light-on-light scattering in Pb+Pb collisions, at an integrated luminosity of 2.2 nb$^{-1}$ and energy of 5.02 TeV, we modeled the cross sections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 T. V. Obikhod , S. B. Chernyshenko

Importance of axion-like particles for very-high-energy astrophysics

Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), very light spin-zero bosons with a two-photon coupling. ALPs can give rise to observable effects in very-high-energy astrophysics. Above roughly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Marco Roncadelli , Alessandro De Angelis , Giorgio Galanti

Axion searches at colliders

We provide an introduction to searches for axions and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) at colliders. After covering the basics of collider physics, with a focus on production and detection of new particles, we give a rather broad introduction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 Michele Tammaro , Jure Zupan

Search for MeV-Scale Axionlike Particles and Dark Photons with PandaX-4T

Axionlike particles (ALPs) and dark photons (DPs) are viable dark matter particle candidates. We have searched for possible ALP/DP signals in the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector using 440 kg$\cdot$yr of data. A binned likelihood fit is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-10 PandaX Collaboration , Tao Li , Zihao Bo , Wei Chen , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Zhaokan Cheng , Xiangyi Cui , Yingjie Fan , Deqing Fang , Zhixing Gao , Lisheng Geng , Karl Giboni , Xunan Guo , Xuyuan Guo , Zichao Guo , Chencheng Han , Ke HanChangda He , Jinrong He , Di Huang , Houqi Huang , Junting Huang , Ruquan Hou , Yu Hou , Xiangdong Ji , Xiangpan Ji , Yonglin Ju , Chenxiang Li , Jiafu Li , Mingchuan Li , Shuaijie Li , Zhiyuan Li , Qing Lin , Jianglai Liu , Congcong Lu , Xiaoying Lu , Lingyin Luo , Yunyang Luo , Wenbo Ma , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Yue Meng , Xuyang Ning , Binyu Pang , Ningchun Qi , Zhicheng Qian , Xiangxiang Ren , Dong Shan , Xiaofeng Shang , Xiyuan Shao , Guofang Shen , Manbin Shen , Wenliang Sun , Yi Tao , Anqing Wang , Guanbo Wang , Hao Wang , Jiamin Wang , Lei Wang , Meng Wang , Qiuhong Wang , Shaobo Wang , Siguang Wang , Wei Wang , Xiuli Wang , Xu Wang , Zhou Wang , Yuehuan Wei , Weihao Wu , Yuan Wu , Mengjiao Xiao , Xiang Xiao , Kaizhi Xiong , Yifan Xu , Shunyu Yao , Binbin Yan , Xiyu Yan , Yong Yang , Peihua Ye , Chunxu Yu , Ying Yuan , Zhe Yuan , Youhui Yun , Xinning Zeng , Minzhen Zhang , Peng Zhang , Shibo Zhang , Shu Zhang , Tao Zhang , Wei Zhang , Yang Zhang , Yingxin Zhang , Yuanyuan Zhang , Li Zhao , Jifang Zhou , Jiaxu Zhou , Jiayi Zhou , Ning Zhou , Xiaopeng Zhou , Yubo Zhou , Zhizhen Zhou

Search for Axion-Like Particles from Nearby Pre-Supernova Stars

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons that arise in many extensions of the Standard Model and are well-motivated dark matter candidates. Nearby massive stars in the late stages of stellar evolution provide a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-04 Saurabh Mittal , Thomas Siegert , Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Laura Eisenberger , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Lella , Alessandro Mirizzi , Dimitris Tsatsis , Hiroki Yoneda

Axions and Axion-like particles: collider searches

We give an overview of collider searches for Axion-like particles (ALPs). The intention of this review is to give a pedagogical introduction to collider phenomenology of ALPs, and provide a starting point for newcomers, including suitable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-28 Anke Biekötter , Ken Mimasu

Search for Higgs boson decays into a $Z$ boson and a light hadronically decaying resonance using 13 TeV $pp$ collision data from the ATLAS detector

A search for Higgs boson decays into a $Z$ boson and a light resonance in two-lepton plus jet events is performed, using a $pp$ collision dataset with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{-1}$ collected at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV by the ATLAS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-15 ATLAS Collaboration

Search for Higgs boson decays into a $Z$ boson and a light hadronically decaying resonance in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search for decays of the Higgs boson into a $Z$ boson and a light resonance, with a mass of 0.5-3.5 GeV, is performed using the full 140 fb$^{-1}$ dataset of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-17 ATLAS Collaboration

Pilot search for axion-like particles by a three-beam stimulated resonant photon collider with short pulse lasers

Toward the systematic search for axion-like particles in the eV mass range, we proposed the concept of a stimulated resonant photon collider by focusing three short pulse lasers into vacuum. In order to realize such a collider, we have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-14 Fumiya Ishibashi , Takumi Hasada , Kensuke Homma , Yuri Kirita , Tsuneto Kanai , ShinIchiro Masuno , Shigeki Tokita , Masaki Hashida

A global analysis of ALP-mediated multiboson production at the LHC

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a well-motivated framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, coupling to gauge bosons through dimension-five operators protected by an approximate shift symmetry. At the LHC, such interactions lead…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Fabian Esser , Alexandre Salas-Bernardez , Maria Ubiali , Veronica Sanz

Testing axion couplings to leptons in $Z$ decays at future $e^+e^-$ colliders

We study the possibility of probing the existence of a light, invisible, axion-like particle (ALP) $a$ in leptonic decays of the $Z$ boson at the proposed high-energy $e^+e^-$ colliders, CEPC and FCC-ee. Both projects plan to run at the $Z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-11 Lorenzo Calibbi , Zijie Huang , Shaoyang Qin , Yiming Yang , Xiaoyue Yin

On the interplay between astrophysical and laboratory probes of MeV-scale axion-like particles

Studies of axion-like particles (ALPs) commonly focus on a single type of interaction, for example couplings only to photons. Most ALP models however predict correlations between different couplings, which change the phenomenology in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Fatih Ertas , Felix Kahlhoefer

Searching for axion-like particles under strong gravitational lenses

We establish strong gravitational lens systems as robust probes of axion-like particles (ALPs) -- a candidate for dark matter. A tiny interaction of photons with ALPs induces birefringence. Multiple images of gravitationally lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Aritra Basu , Jishnu Goswami , Dominik J. Schwarz , Yuko Urakawa

Tracking axion-like particles at the LHC

Highly boosted axion-like particles decaying into photon pairs are notoriously hard to detect at the LHC. The collimated decay photons cannot be individually reconstructed using only electromagnetic calorimeter information, making the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-27 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Joerg Jaeckel , Diego D. Lopes