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We consider the possibility of an axion-like particle (ALP) that is a ghost, with wrong-sign kinetic and mass terms. Such an ALP can arise as the partner to an ordinary particle in theories with higher-derivative quadratic terms. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Christopher D. Carone

We investigate the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in stellar cores, where they interact with electromagnetic fields and electrons, with typical masses between $\mathcal O(0.1)$ and $\mathcal O(10)$ keV. These low-energy ALPs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-13 Yu-Xuan Chen , Lei Lei , Zi-Qing Xia , Ziwei Wang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

Measurement of cosmic photons may reveal their propagation in the interstellar environment, thereby offering a promising way to probe axions and axion-like particles (ALPs). Numerical methods are usually used to compute the propagation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Qing-Hong Cao , Zuowei Liu , Jun-Chen Wang

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

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant enigmas in modern cosmology. Axion-like particles (ALPs), as well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter, can undergo radiative decay into photon pairs, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Wen-Qing Guo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model, and their masses can naturally be well below the electroweak scale. In the presence of couplings to electroweak bosons, these particles could be emitted in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-04 The BABAR Collaboration

Axion-like particles (ALPs) that decay into photon pairs pose a challenge for experiments that rely on the construction of a decay vertex in order to search for long-lived particles. This is particularly true for beam-dump experiments,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Alessandro Morandini , Torben Ferber , Felix Kahlhoefer

We perform a feasibility study to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) using vector boson fusion (VBF) processes at the LHC. We work in an effective field theory framework with cutoff scale $\Lambda$ and ALP mass $m_{a}$, and assume that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Andrés Flórez , Alfredo Gurrola , Will Johns , Paul Sheldon , Elijah Sheridan , Kuver Sinha , Brandon Soubasis

New pseudoscalars, axion-like particles (ALPs), provide the exciting target for present and future collider-based experiments. Search for ALPs is performed in this paper via the $W^{+}W^{-}$ fusion process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Chong-Xing Yue , Han Wang , Yue-Qi Wang

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo-scalar particles that are candidates for ultralight dark matter. ALPs interact with photons slightly and cause the rotational oscillation of linear polarization. DANCE searches for ALP dark matter by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-19 Hiroki Fujimoto , Yuka Oshima , Masaki Ando , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the standard model (SM) that appear in numerous new physics scenarios. In this paper, we concentrate on searches for long-lived ALPs predicted by the photophobic scenario at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Chong-Xing Yue , Xin-Yang Li , Shuo Yang , Mei-Shu-Yu Wang

Coupling of axion-like particles (ALPs) to photons in the presence of background magnetic field affects propagation of gamma-rays through magnetized environments. This results in modification in the gamma-ray spectra of sources in or behind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-14 D. Malyshev , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , A. Santangelo , J. Jochum

Axionlike-particles (ALPs) are one promising type of dark matter candidate particle that may generate detectable effects on $\gamma$-ray spectra other than the canonical weakly interacting massive particles. In this work we search for such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Zi-Qing Xia , Cun Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Jian Wu

We present a comprehensive study of axion-like particles (ALPs) in meson decays, combining effective field theory and ultraviolet models within the open-source tool ALPaca. The analysis accounts for running and matching effects across…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Jorge Alda , Marta Fuentes Zamoro , Luca Merlo , Xavier Ponce Díaz , Stefano Rigolin

Recently, the PVLAS collaboration has reported evidence for an anomalous rotation of the polarization of light in vacuum in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. This may be explained through the production of a new light spin-zero…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Ehret , Maik Frede , Ernst-Axel Knabbe , Dietmar Kracht , Axel Lindner , Niels Meyer , Dieter Notz , Andreas Ringwald , Guenter Wiedemann

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are known to be produced through axion-photon conversion in the presence of a stationary external magnetic field. Devices such as undulators and wigglers, which are used widely for photon production, e.g., in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Wen Yin , Junya Yoshida

The axion-like particle (ALP) and primordial black hole (PBH) are two representative dark matter (DM) candidates as light bosonic DM and macroscopic objects, respectively. In this work, we investigate the gamma-ray production mechanisms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Tong Li , Rui-Jia Zhang

Heavy axion-like particles (ALPs), with masses up to a few 100 keV and coupled with photons can be efficiently produced in stellar plasmas, contributing to a significant energy-loss. This argument has been applied to helium burning stars in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Giuseppe Lucente , Oscar Straniero , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi
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