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Axion-like particles (ALPs) may undergo mixing with photons in the presence of astrophysical magnetic fields, leading to alterations in the observed high energy $\gamma$-ray spectra. In this study, we investigate the ALP-photon oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-06 Lin-Qing Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Jun-Guang Guo , Wenbin Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs), predicted in theories beyond the Standard Model, can have observational effects on the transparency of the Universe to $\gamma$ rays in the presence of magnetic fields. In this work, we search for effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-30 Rolf Buehler , Galo Gallardo , Gernot Maier , Alberto Domínguez , Marcos López , Manuel Meyer

Adding an axion-like particle (ALP) to the Standard Model, with a field velocity in the early universe, simultaneously explains the observed baryon and dark matter densities. This requires one or more couplings between the ALP and photons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Raymond T. Co , Lawrence J. Hall , Keisuke Harigaya

We report a mm-wave search for axion dark matter from SGR 1745-2900, based on 4.8 h of ALMA observations. No candidate features are found between 133.99-135.78, 135.91-137.70, 145.99-147.78, and 147.99-149.78~GHz, corresponding to 0.55-0.62…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Javier De Miguel , Evanthia Hatziminaoglou , Frédéric Poidevin , Nanda Rea , Daniel L. Walker , Davide De Grandis , Jaime Prieto-Polo

Existence of dark matter indicates the presence of unknown fundamental laws of nature. Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates, emerging naturally from theories of physics at ultrahigh energies. We report…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-11 Alexander V. Gramolin , Deniz Aybas , Dorian Johnson , Janos Adam , Alexander O. Sushkov

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

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) with a sub-keV range mass are searched by using the light-shining-through-a-wall technique. A novel system is developed in which injected X rays are converted and reconverted by the Laue-case conversion within a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-26 T. Yamaji , K. Tamasaku , T. Namba , T. Yamazaki , Y. Seino

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are one of the most widely discussed extensions of the Standard Model when it comes to the strong CP problem and dark matter candidates. Current experiments are focused on the indirect searches of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-12 Aleksandr Pustyntsev , Marc Vanderhaeghen

The absence of conclusive signals in weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) searches has motivated increased interest in alternative dark matter candidates such as axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), which also provide a solution to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-07 S. Sahoo , S. Verma , M. Mirzakhani , N. Mishra , A. Thompson , S. Maludze , R. Mahapatra , M. Platt

Axion-like particles are dark matter candidates motivated by the Peccei-Quinn mechanism and also occur in effective field theories where their masses and photon couplings are independent. We estimate the dispersion of circularly polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Günter Sigl , Pranjal Trivedi

We derive structure formation limits on dark matter (DM) composed of keV-scale axion-like particles (ALPs), produced via freeze-in through the interactions with photons and Standard Model (SM) fermions. We employ Lyman-alpha (Ly-{\alpha})…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Sven Baumholzer , Vedran Brdar , Enrico Morgante

We study the discovery potential for heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) and the perspectives for determining their coupling properties at a muon collider. Focusing on their couplings to the Standard Model (SM) gauge bosons $\gamma, Z,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-11 Tao Han , Tong Li , Xing Wang

In the past few years, the search for axion-like particles (ALPs) has grown significantly due to their potential to account for the total abundance of the cold dark matter (CDM) in the universe. The coupling between ALPs and photons allows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Ahmed Ayad , Geoff Beck

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can induce localised oscillatory modulations in the spectra of photon sources passing through astrophysical magnetic fields. Ultra-deep Chandra observations of the Perseus cluster contain over $5 \times 10^5$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-04 Marcus Berg , Joseph P. Conlon , Francesca Day , Nicholas Jennings , Sven Krippendorf , Andrew J. Powell , Markus Rummel

An axion-like particle (ALP) with mass $m_\phi \sim 10^{-15}$eV oscillates with frequency $\sim$1 Hz. This mass scale lies in an open window of astrophysical constraints, and appears naturally as a consequence of grand unification (GUT) in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-06 David J. E. Marsh , Wen Yin

We present a novel approach to investigating axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) by studying their potential conversion into X-rays within the Sun's atmospheric magnetic field. Utilizing high-sensitivity data from the Nuclear…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can be copiously produced in binary neutron star (BNS) mergers through nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung if the ALP-nucleon couplings $g_{a N}$ are sizable. The ALP-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma}$ may trigger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Francesca Lecce , Alessandro Lella , Giuseppe Lucente , Vimal Vijayan , Andreas Bauswein , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

In this work we revisit five different point sources within or behind galaxy clusters in order to constrain the coupling constant between axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons. We use three distinct machine learning (ML) techniques and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Simon Schallmoser , Sven Krippendorf , Francesca Chadha-Day , Jochen Weller

Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao
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