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This paper intends to collect available data on searches for scalar resonances at LHC. It is suggested that, in the absence of SUSY, the most compelling picture is the composite framework, with the idea that the lightest particles are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-03-24 François Richard

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons inter-convert in the presence of a magnetic field. At keV energies in the environment of galaxy clusters, the conversion probability can become unsuppressed for light ALPs. Conversion of thermal X-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Joseph P. Conlon , M. C. David Marsh , Andrew J. Powell

This study examines the production of dark matter events alongside a Z$^{\prime}$ boson decaying through leptonic channels in simulated proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis focuses on collisions at $\sqrt{s}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-31 Ali Muhammad H. H. , El-sayed A. El-dahshan , S. Elgammal

Assuming the existence of an axion-like particle (ALP), beams of relativistic particles emit fluxes of quasi-real ALPs, analogous to the photon fluxes described by Weizs\"acker-Williams-type approximations. Consequently, ALP-ALP and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 Sergio Barbosa , Matheus Coelho , Sylvain Fichet , Gustavo Gil da Silveira , Magno Machado

We investigate the possibility of detecting dark matter at TeV scale linear colliders in the scenario where the dark matter is a massive particle weakly interacting only with the Higgs boson $h$ in the low energy effective theory (the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-20 Shinya Kanemura , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takehiro Nabeshima , Hiroyuki Taniguchi

Hypothetical axion-like particles (ALPs) are of interest because of their potential to act as dark matter or to reveal information about yet undiscovered fundamental constituents of matter. Such particles can be created when photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Denys Malyshev , Lidiia Zadorozhna , Yuriy Bidasyuk , Andrea Santangelo , Oleg Ruchayskiy

The search for physics beyond the Standard Model motivates new high-energy accelerators, which will require high luminosities in order to produce interesting new heavy particles. Using the Higgs boson and supersymmetry as examples, we…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 John Ellis

Large-scale extragalactic magnetic fields may induce conversions between very-high-energy photons and axionlike particles (ALPs), thereby shielding the photons from absorption on the extragalactic background light. However, in simplified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-07 Daniele Montanino , Franco Vazza , Alessandro Mirizzi , Matteo Viel

The Electron-Ion Collider in China (EicC), a proposed high-luminosity facility with advanced charged particle and photon detection capabilities, provides unique opportunities to uncover new physics beyond the Standard Model. We analyze its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-10 Qiyuan Gao , Dan Lin , Hongkai Liu , Teng Ma

We update the globular cluster bound on massive ($m_a$ up to a few 100 keV) axion-like particles (ALP) interacting with photons. The production of such particles in the stellar core is dominated by the Primakoff $\gamma + Ze\to Ze +a$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 Pierluca Carenza , Oscar Straniero , Babette Döbrich , Maurizio Giannotti , Giuseppe Lucente , Alessandro Mirizzi

A high-energy muon collider with center-of-mass energy around and above 10 TeV is also a vector boson fusion (VBF) machine, due to the significant virtual electroweak (EW) gauge boson content of high-energy muon beams. This feature,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-13 Yunjia Bao , JiJi Fan , Lingfeng Li

The current Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data show no clear indication of new physics and only incremental improvements are anticipated at the energy frontier in the near future. However, while the focus of the LHC has been on constraining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-10 Amit Adhikary , Aoife Bharucha , Lorenzo Feligioni , Michele Frigerio

In this work we revisit five different point sources within or behind galaxy clusters in order to constrain the coupling constant between axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons. We use three distinct machine learning (ML) techniques and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Simon Schallmoser , Sven Krippendorf , Francesca Chadha-Day , Jochen Weller

The application of cryogenic single photon detectors has found great use in high precision particle physics experiments such as ALPS (Any Light Particle Search) II, which implements it for fundamental studies to search for new particles.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-22 Rikhav Shah , Katharina-Sophie Isleif , Friederike Januschek , Axel Lindner , Matthias Schott

We study the potential of the future Higgs factories, including the ILC, CEPC, and FCC-ee with $\sqrt{s}$ = 240-250 GeV on discovering axion-like particles (ALPs) through various production channels in the leptonic final states, $e^+e^- \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Kingman Cheung , C. J. Ouseph

We present a complete model of a dark QCD sector with light dark pions, broadly motivated by hidden naturalness arguments. The dark quarks couple to the Standard Model via irrelevant $Z$- and Higgs-portal operators, which encode the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-25 Hsin-Chia Cheng , Lingfeng Li , Ennio Salvioni

Axion-like particles (ALPs), hypothetical pseudoscalar particles that couple to photons, are among the most actively investigated candidates for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Their interaction with gamma rays in the presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-15 Pooja Bhattacharjee , Christopher Eckner , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Gert Kluge , Giacomo D'Amico

Many composite Higgs models predict the existence of vector-like quarks with masses outside the reach of the LHC, e.g. $m_Q \gtrsim 2$ TeV, in particular if these models contain a dark matter candidate. In such models the mass of the new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Mikael Chala , Ramona Gröber , Michael Spannowsky

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang

Contributions of a spin 0 axion-like particle (ALP) to lepton dipole moments, g-2 and EDMs, are examined. Barr-Zee and light-by-light loop effects from a light pseudoscalar ALP are found to be capable of resolving the long-standing muon g-2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 W. J. Marciano , A. Masiero , P. Paradisi , M. Passera