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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 the scenario in which QCD axion dark matter is produced after inflation, the Universe is populated by large inhomogeneities on very small scales. Eventually, these fluctuations will collapse gravitationally to form dense axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Benedikt Eggemeier , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Giovanni Pierobon , Javier Redondo , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

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

If the symmetry breaking inducing the axion occurs after the inflation, the large axion isocurvature perturbations can arise due to a different axion amplitude in each causally disconnected patch. This causes the enhancement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-20 Kenji Kadota , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Hiroyuki Tashiro

The extragalactic background light is comprised of the cumulative radiation from all galaxies across the history of the universe. The angular power spectrum of the anisotropies of such a background at near-infrared (IR) frequencies lacks of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-20 Andrea Caputo , Andrea Vittino , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis , Marco Taoso

We perform a comprehensive analysis of dark matter-nucleon scattering via the exchange of axion-like particles (ALPs). At first sight, this might appear of little practical use, as non-relativistic scattering through pseudo-scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Wim Beenakker , Daniël Mikkers , Anh Vu Phan , Susanne Westhoff

Ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates introduced by theories beyond the standard model. However, the constraints on the existence of ALPs through existing laboratory experiments are hindered by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-01 Min Jiang , Haowen Su , Antoine Garcon , Xinhua Peng , Dmitry Budker

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a compelling candidate for dark matter (DM), whose production is associated with the formation of a string-wall network. If walls bounded by strings persist, which requires the potential to have multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Graciela B. Gelmini , Anna Simpson , Edoardo Vitagliano

We study the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in association with electrons and neutrinos in the muon decay process. For this purpose, we compute the decay width of the muon to a four-body channel using a $d=7$ effective operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-12 Ankita Budhraja , Samadrita Mukherjee , Sahana Narasimha

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model (SM) that appear in many new physics scenarios, with masses spanning a broad range. In this work, we systematically study the production and detection prospects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Shou-shan Bao , Yang Ma , Yongcheng Wu , Keping Xie , Hong Zhang

In post-inflation axion-like particle (ALP) models, a stable domain wall network forms if the model's potential has multiple minima. This system must annihilate before dominating the Universe's energy density, producing ALPs and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-30 Graciela B. Gelmini , Jonah Hyman

The axion, motivated as a solution to the strong CP problem, is also a viable dark matter candidate. We use N-body simulations to study the formation of substructures from white-noise density fluctuations. The density profiles of our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Huangyu Xiao , Ian Williams , Matthew McQuinn

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons that arise in many extensions of the Standard Model and are well-motivated dark matter candidates. Nearby massive stars in the late stages of stellar evolution provide a…

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

We investigate the dynamics of axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter where the field range is enlarged by a monodromy. The monodromy potential allows sufficient production of dark matter also at larger couplings to the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-12 Jürgen Berges , Aleksandr Chatrchyan , Joerg Jaeckel

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) from density fluctuations due to supercooled phase transitions (PTs) triggered in an axion-like particle (ALP) model. We find that the mass of the PBHs is inversely correlated with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Angela Conaci , Luigi Delle Rose , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Anish Ghoshal

Oscillating ultra-light scalar fields are a natural explanation for the dark matter in our universe, as long as a mechanism, often called a misalignment mechanism, exists to explain the amplitude of the scalar oscillations. If the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Clare Burrage , Sergio Sevillano Muñoz

Axion-like particles (ALPs), a compelling candidate for dark matter (DM), are the pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons of a spontaneously and explicitly broken global $U(1)$ symmetry. When the symmetry breaking happens after inflation, the ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-28 Graciela B. Gelmini , Anna Simpson , Edoardo Vitagliano

We investigate a scenario where Strongly Interacting Massive Particle (SIMP) dark matter interacts with an axion-like particle (ALP) that couples exclusively to electrons. This minimal setup provides interactions which enforce thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Vincenzo Fiorentino , Ji-Heng Guo , Giacomo Landini , Federico Mescia