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Axion-like particles (ALPs) might constitute the totality of the cold dark matter (CDM) observed. The parameter space of ALPs depends on the mass of the particle $m$ and on the energy scale of inflation $H_I$ , the latter being bound by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 Luca Visinelli

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

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

We study axion-like particles (ALPs) whose dominant interactions are with gluons and third-generation quarks, and whose couplings to light Standard Model (SM) particles arise at one loop. These loop-induced effects lead to ALP decays and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Jon Butterworth , Matthew Cullingworth , Joseph Egan , Fabian Esser , Veronica Sanz , Maria Ubiali

Physics beyond the Standard Model predicts the possible existence of new particles that can be searched at the low energy frontier in the sub-eV range. The OSQAR photon regeneration experiment looks for "Light Shining through a Wall" from…

We study the collider phenomenology of leptophilic axion-like particles (ALPs), i.e. pseudoscalar particles that couple only to charged leptons. Loops of charged leptons induce effective interactions of the ALPs with photons, which depend…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Alexander Eberhart , Marco Fedele , Felix Kahlhoefer , Eike Ravensburg , Robert Ziegler

Searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) are motivated by the strong CP problem in particle physics and by unexplained dark matter in astrophysics. In this letter, we discuss novel ALP searches using monoenergetic nuclear de-excitation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-29 Loyd Waites , Adrian Thompson , Adriana Bungau , Janet M. Conrad , Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Doojin Kim , Michael Shaevitz , Joshua Spitz

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model and give rise to characteristic dimming and polarization effects in a light beam travelling in a magnetic field. In this Letter, we demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandro De Angelis , Oriana Mansutti , Marco Roncadelli

Axion-like particles (ALPs) produced via the Primakoff process in the cores of Galactic core-collapse supernovae (SNe) could convert into MeV-energy gamma-rays through interactions with the Milky Way's magnetic field. To evaluate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Zhen Xie , Jiahao Liu , Bing Liu , Ruizhi Yang

Discoveries of very high energy (VHE) photons from distant blazars suggest that, after correction by extragalactic background light (EBL) absorption, there is a flatness or even a turn-up in their spectra at the highest energies that cannot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Dominguez , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , F. Prada

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) coupled with electrons would be produced in a Supernova (SN) via electron-proton bremsstrahlung and electron-positron fusion. We evaluate the ALP emissivity from these processes by taking into account the ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-16 Giuseppe Lucente , Pierluca Carenza

We study ALP-photon-conversion within strong inhomogeneous electromagnetic fields as provided by contemporary high-intensity laser systems. We observe that probe photons traversing the focal spot of a superposition of Gaussian beams of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Babette Döbrich , Holger Gies

The sensitivity of the proposed FCC-ee collider to axion-like particles (ALPs) is investigated at all planned center-of-mass energies, with focus on the case where the ALP couples primarily to electroweak gauge bosons at leading order. We…

Cosmic ray protons propagating in a spatially-homogeneous but time-dependent field of axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) emit photons in a way that is reminiscent of Cherenkov radiation by charged particles in a preferred background. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-18 H. Tam , Q. Yang

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

We search for dark matter in the form of axionlike particles (ALPs) in the mass range $5.576741 \,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ - $5.577733\,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ by probing their possible coupling to fermion spins through the ALP field gradient. This is…

Several laboratory experiments have published limits on axionlike particles (ALPs) with feeble couplings to electrons and masses in the keV-MeV range, under the assumption that such ALPs comprise the dark matter. We note that ALPs decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-15 Ricardo Z. Ferreira , M. C. David Marsh , Eike Müller

In the presence of a background magnetic field, axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) can be resonantly converted to photons when their mass is nearly equal to the effective photon mass. In this paper, we propose a novel method to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ashu Kushwaha , Rajeev Kumar Jain

The high-energy Universe is potentially a great laboratory for searching new light bosons such as axion-like particles (ALPs). Cosmic sources are indeed the scene of violent phenomena that involve strong magnetic field and/or very long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Pierre Brun

We consider possible experimental tests of recent hypotheses suggesting that TeV photons survive the pair production interaction with extragalactic background light over cosmological distances by converting to axion-like particles (ALPs) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. T. Avignone , R. J. Creswick , S. Nussinov