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Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear from spontaneous global symmetry breaking in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we find bounds on ALP ($a$) model parameters at the LHC from the ALP production associated with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Javad Ebadi , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Axion like particles (ALPs) are quite generic in many scenarios for physics beyond the Standard Model, they are pseudoscalar Nambu-Goldstone bosons, and appear once any global $U(1)$ symmetry is broken spontaneously. The ALPs can gain mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Anupam Mazumdar , Saleh Qutub

We study a supersymmetric effective field theory in which the mass of an axion-like particle (ALP) is generated predominantly by soft supersymmetry-breaking effects. The Peccei--Quinn symmetry is exact in the supersymmetric limit and is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Gayatri Ghosh

Axions or ALPs are hypothetical particles predicted by BSM theories, which make one of the dark matter candidates. These particles can convert into photons and vice-versa in the presence of magnetic field, with a probability decided by its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated examples of light, weakly coupled particles in theories beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we study long-lived ALPs coupled exclusively to leptons in the mass range between $2 m_e$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Yohei Ema , Patrick J. Fox , Matheus Hostert , Tony Menzo , Maxim Pospelov , Anupam Ray , Jure Zupan

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can decay into two photons with a rest-frame frequency given by half of the ALP mass. This implies that ultra-violet searches can be used to investigate ALPs in the multi-eV mass range. We use archival data from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Elisa Todarello , Marco Regis

Axions and axion-like particles emerge in many models for physics beyond the Standard Model. Thus, they have gained increasing research interest in both experimental and theoretical physics apart from their original proposition as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Matthias Neubert , Marvin Schnubel

We study cross correlations between line intensity and weak lensing maps to search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Radiative decay of eV-mass ALPs can contribute to cosmic background emissions at optical and infrared wavelengths. Line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Masato Shirasaki

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are light pseudo-scalar particles predicted in many theoretically well-motivated extensions to the standard model of particle physics (SM). The search for cold dark matter (CDM) ALPs has gained tremendous ground…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Ahmed Ayad , Geoff Beck

The existence of axion-like particles (ALPs) can be probed from their signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) due to the photon-ALP resonant conversion over the mass range of ALPs that matches with the effective mass of photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-22 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

In this work, prospects to probe an overlooked facet of axion-like particles (ALPs) -- their potential couplings to sterile neutrinos -- are presented. We found that mono-photon searches have the potential to constrain ALP couplings to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-18 Alexandre Alves , Alex G. Dias , Diego D. Lopes

The measurements of the linear polarisation of visible light from quasars give strong evidence for large-scale coherent orientations of their polarisation vectors in some regions of the sky. We show that these observations can be explained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-04 A. Payez , J. R. Cudell , D. Hutsemékers

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are some of the best-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates. Under certain circumstances, large axion fluctuations in the early universe can collapse to form dense configurations called axion clumps.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-21 Anirudh Prabhu

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

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

Very high energy (VHE, energy >~ 100 GeV) {\gamma}-rays originating from extragalactic sources interact with low energy photons of background radiation fields and produce electron-positron pairs. Alternatively, in the presence of ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-28 Manuel Meyer , Dieter Horns , Luca Maccione , Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino , Marco Roncadelli

The misalignment mechanism allows for the efficient, and usually very cold, production of light scalar bosons, such as axion-like particles (ALPs), making them an appealing dark matter candidate. However, in certain cases, such as in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-17 Aleksandr Chatrchyan , Joerg Jaeckel

Background radiation fields pervade the Universe, and above a certain energy any $\gamma$-ray flux emitted by an extragalactic source should be attenuated due to $e^+e^-$ pair production. The opacity could be alleviated if photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 Manuel Meyer , Daniele Montanino , Jan Conrad

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