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We present an analysis of the sensitivity of current and future LHC searches for new spin-0 particles in top-anti-top-quark ($t\bar{t}$) final states, focusing on generic axion-like particles (ALPs) that are coupled to top quarks and…

Future lepton colliders, such as those based on linear $e^+e^-$ or circular $\mu^+\mu^-$ accelerators, are expected to attain centre-of-mass energies in the multi-TeV range. In this regime the impact of QED and of weak radiation, in both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-04 Stefano Frixione , Fabio Maltoni , Davide Pagani , Marco Zaro

The pursuit of discovery in particle physics has always required study at the highest possible energies. Multi-TeV muon colliders, which have important advantages, offer unprecedented potential for investigating new physics beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 S. Spor , M. Köksal

One kind of particularly interesting pseudoscalar particles, called axion-like particles (ALPs), have rich physical phenomenology at high- and low-energy collider experiments. After discussing most of single production channels of ALP at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-25 Chong-Xing Yue , Hua-Ying Zhang , Han Wang

We propose a new beam dump experiment at a future TeV-scale muon collider. A beam dump would be an economical and effective way to increase the discovery potential of the collider complex in a complementary regime. In this work we consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Cari Cesarotti , Samuel Homiller , Rashmish K. Mishra , Matthew Reece

Recently, Altmannshofer, Dror and Gori (2022) claimed there is a four-point interaction, $W$-$\ell$-$\nu$-$a$, in the electroweak-violating scenario of axion-like particle (ALP) and lepton interactions which plays a critical role in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-12 Chih-Ting Lu

A search for a heavy charged-boson resonance decaying into a charged lepton (electron or muon) and a neutrino is reported. A data sample of 139 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV collected with the ATLAS detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-16 ATLAS Collaboration

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken global symmetries in high-energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This makes them a prime target for future experiments aiming to discover new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Martin Bauer , Mathias Heiles , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

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

Studies of axion-like particles (ALPs) commonly focus on a single type of interaction, for example couplings only to photons. Most ALP models however predict correlations between different couplings, which change the phenomenology in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Fatih Ertas , Felix Kahlhoefer

In this article, we present projected 95\% C.L. limits on Axion-Like Particle (ALP) couplings from ALP production at a future $e^+e^-$ collider operating at $\sqrt{s} = 250~\text{GeV}$ with integrated luminosity $L = 0.5~\text{ab}^{-1}$. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Pramod Sharma , Soham Singh , Mukesh Kumar , Ashok Goyal

Leptophilic axion-like particles (ALPs) exhibit rich phenomenology, focusing exclusively on interactions between an ALP and Standard Model (SM) leptons. Through integration by parts, it is shown that both the three-point interaction,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Xu-Hui Jiang , Chih-Ting Lu

We propose a new collider probe for axion-like particles (ALPs), and more generally for pseudo-Goldstone bosons: non-resonant searches which take advantage of the derivative nature of their interactions with Standard Model particles. ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 M. B. Gavela , J. M. No , V. Sanz , J. F. de Trocóniz

We study the discovery potential of axion-like particles (ALP), pseudo-scalars weakly coupled to Standard Model fields, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our focus is on ALPs coupled to the electromagnetic field, which would induce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-20 C. Baldenegro , S. Hassani , C. Royon , L. Schoeffel

We study the potential of lepton collisions with about $10\text{ TeV}$ center of mass energy to probe Electroweak, Higgs and Top short-distance physics at the $100\text{ TeV}$ scale, pointing out the interplay with the long-distance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-15 Siyu Chen , Alfredo Glioti , Riccardo Rattazzi , Lorenzo Ricci , Andrea Wulzer

We discuss the prospects for detecting at a muon collider the massive new vector resonances V and light pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons P of a typical strongly interacting electroweak sector (as represented by the BESS model). Expected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Casalbuoni , S. De Curtis , D. Dominici , A. Deandrea , R. Gatto , J. F. Gunion

We study heavy photophobic axion-like particles (ALPs) in the limit of an effectively vanishing diphoton coupling, $g_{a\gamma\gamma}\simeq 0$, for which diphoton production and decay are suppressed and collider phenomenology is driven by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-18 Zilong Ding , Jiaojiao Feng , Ying-nan Mao , Kechen Wang , Yiheng Xiong

Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

With the improvement of muon acceleration technology, it has received great interest to exploit high-energy muon beams for collision or target experiments. We investigate possible charged Lepton Flavor Violation (cLFV) processes mediated by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-29 Ran Ding , Jingshu Li , Meng Lu , Zhengyun You , Zijian Wang , Qiang Li

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global symmetries emerging in many extensions of the Standard Model. Assuming the most general effective Lagrangian up to dimension-5…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-08 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Daruosh Haji Raissi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi