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In this paper, we explore the interactions between light axion-like particles (ALPs) and top quarks, gluons, and W-bosons. Utilizing high-energy probes at the LHC, we probe these couplings in the context of single top quark production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We propose a new method to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) based on the gamma-rays produced concomitant with high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The existence of high-energy neutrinos implies production of gamma-rays in the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-07 Hendrik Vogel , Ranjan Laha , Manuel Meyer

We derive partial-wave unitarity constraints on gauge-invariant interactions of an Axion-Like Particle (ALP) up to dimension-6 from all allowed $2\to2$ scattering processes in the limit of large center-of-mass energy. We find that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-27 I. Brivio , O. J. P. Éboli , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia

We investigate the potential of type II supernovae (SNe) to constrain axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled simultaneously to nucleons and electrons. ALPs coupled to nucleons can be efficiently produced in the SN core via nucleon-nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Joerg Jaeckel , Giuseppe Lucente , Alessandro Mirizzi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). We explore the discovery potential for ALPs of the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) via the $W^{+}W^{-}$ fusion process. For concreteness, both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 Chong-Xing Yue , Han Wang , Xue-Jia Cheng , Yue-Qi Wang

The axion-like particle (ALP), a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson that couples to two photons, has been studied extensively in recent years as a dark matter candidate. For initial field configurations in a minimal ALP model explaining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Yuma Narita , Wen Yin

We explore the signals of axion-like particles (ALPs) in flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) processes. The most general effective linear Lagrangian for ALP couplings to the electroweak bosonic sector is considered, and its contribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-05 M. B. Gavela , R. Houtz , P. Quilez , R. del Rey , O. Sumensari

The possibility of searching for long-lived axion-like particles (ALPs) decaying into photons is investigated in ultraperipheral $PbPb$ collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We propose a search strategy for low mass ALPs using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Pedro Nogarolli , Victor P. Gonçalves , Murilo S. Rangel

We constrain the coupling between axionlike particles (ALPs) and photons, measured with the superconducting resonant detection circuit of a cryogenic Penning trap. By searching the noise spectrum of our fixed-frequency resonant circuit for…

We propose a fixed-target experiment to search for Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling to photons, which utilizes electron and positron beams available at KEK Linac. The sensitivity to ALP is evaluated for two shielding setups in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Akimasa Ishikawa , Yasuhito Sakaki , Yosuke Takubo

We report on the first results of the Noble and Alkali Spin Detectors for Ultralight Coherent darK matter (NASDUCK) collaboration. We search for the interactions of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with atomic spins using an earth-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-08 Itay M. Bloch , Gil Ronen , Roy Shaham , Ori Katz , Tomer Volansky , Or Katz

Future muon colliders with center-of-mass energy of $\mathcal{O}(1-10)$ TeV can provide a clean high-energy environment with advantages in searches for TeV-scale axion-like particles (ALPs), pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 So Chigusa , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Yufei Zhang

We use our recent electric dipole moment (EDM) measurement data to constrain the possibility that the HfF$^+$ EDM oscillates in time due to interactions with candidate dark matter axion-like particles (ALPs). We employ a Bayesian analysis…

The detection of very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays from the active galaxy M87 by LHAASO, showing a possible spectral hardening around $20$ TeV, motivates the search for new physics beyond standard emission models. One promising candidate is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 A. Pratts , D Avila Rojas , J. Serna-Franco , M. M. González , R. Alfaro

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are well-motivated candidates for dark matter and potential mediators to the dark sector. We present a search for ALPs coupled to photons, based on a reinterpretation of COMPASS data. Using the 2009 dataset…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Mehran Dehpour

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global symmetries incorporated in the Standard Model (SM) Lagrangian in many models beyond the SM. The existence of a light ALP is plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-11 Shirin Chenarani , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We present a novel data-driven method for determining the hadronic interaction strengths of axion-like particles (ALPs) with QCD-scale masses. Using our method, it is possible to calculate the hadronic production and decay rates of ALPs,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Daniel Aloni , Yotam Soreq , Mike Williams

We explore the potential of the Mu2e experiment to probe the lepton-flavor-violating process $\mu^- e^- \to e^- e^-$ in a muonic atom within a simplified axion-like particle (ALP) framework featuring flavor-violating $e$-$\mu$ couplings and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Girish Kumar , Alexey A. Petrov

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics and a generic prediction of some string theories. X-ray observations of bright Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) hosted by rich clusters of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Júlia Sisk-Reynés , Christopher S. Reynolds , Michael L. Parker , James H. Matthews , M. C. David Marsh

The absence of definitive results for WIMP dark matter has sparked growing interest in alternative dark matter candidates, such as axions and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), which also provide insight into the strong CP problem. The Mitchell…