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Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are very light neutral spin zero elusive particles primarily interacting with two photons and predicted by superstring and superbrane theories, have come to help by solving two distinct problems about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-20 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli , Fabrizio Tavecchio

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are very light, neutral, spin zero bosons predicted by many theories which try to complete the standard model of elementary particles. ALPs interact primarily with two photons and can generate photon-ALP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-09 Giorgio Galanti

Axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates whose coupling to photons induces periodic oscillations in the polarization angle of astrophysical light. This work reports the first search for such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Qiu-Ju Huang , Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) rotate the linear polarization of photons through the ALP-photon coupling and convert the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $E$-mode to the $B$-mode. We derive the relation between the ALP dynamics and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 Tomohiro Fujita , Yuto Minami , Kai Murai , Hiromasa Nakatsuka

We investigate how the photon polarization is affected by the interaction with axion-like particles (ALPs) in the rotating magnetic field of a neutron star (NS). Using quantum Boltzmann equations the study demonstrates that the periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei , Sabino Matarrese , Roberto Turolla

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a broad class of pseudo-scalar bosons that generically arise from broken symmetries in extensions of the standard model. In many scenarios, ALPs can mix with photons in regions with high magnetic fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 Sunniva Jacobsen , Tim Linden , Katherine Freese

The mixing of photons with axion-like particles (ALPs) in the large-scale magnetic field $B$ changes the polarization angle of a linearly polarized photon beam from active galactic nuclei in radio galaxies as it propagates over cosmological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-13 D. Horns , L. Maccione , A. Mirizzi , M. Roncadelli

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 explore the axion-like particle (ALP)-photon oscillation effect in the $\gamma$-ray spectra of the blazars Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) and PG 1553+113, which are measured by the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (MAGIC)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Hai-Jun Li , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to photons in strong magnetic fields, producing characteristic fluctuations in X-ray spectra. Using data from NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we analyzed three pulsars: PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Yen-Jhen Liu , Yi Yang

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), if exist in nature, are expected to mix with photons in the presence of an external magnetic field. The energy range of photons which undergo strong mixing with ALPs depends on the ALP mass, on its coupling with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-13 Olga Mena , Soebur Razzaque

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are very light, neutral, spin zero bosons predicted by superstring theory. ALPs interact primarily with two photons and in the presence of an external magnetic field they generate photon-ALP oscillations and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-29 Giorgio Galanti

Many theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics predict the existence of axionlike particles (ALPs) that mix with photons in the presence of a magnetic field. Searching for the effects of ALP-photon mixing in gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-24 James Davies , Manuel Meyer , Garret Cotter

High-energy photons may oscillate with axion-like particles (ALPs) when they propagate through the Milky Way's magnetic field, resulting in an alteration in the observed photon energy spectrum. The ultra-high energy gamma-ray spectra,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-04 Jun Li , Xiao-Jun Bi , Lin-Qing Gao , Xiaoyuan Huang , Run-Min Yao , Peng-Fei Yin

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear from spontaneous global symmetry breaking in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we find bounds on ALP ($a$) model parameters at the LHC from the ALP production associated with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Javad Ebadi , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

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

The light-by-light (LBL) scattering with initial polarized Compton backscattered photons at the CLIC, induced by axion-like particles (ALPs), is investigated. The total cross sections are calculated, assuming CP-even coupling of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 S. C. İnan , A. V. Kisselev

X-ray telescopes are an exceptional tool for searching for new fundamental physics. In particular, X-ray observations have already placed world-leading bounds on the interaction between photons and axion-like particles (ALPs). ALPs are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Francesca Day , Sven Krippendorf

When coupled to electromagnetism via a Chern-Simons interaction, axion-like particles (ALP) produce a rotation of the plane of linear polarization of photons known as cosmic birefringence. Recent measurements of cosmic birefringence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-10 P. Diego-Palazuelos

The interaction between axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons induces ALP-photon oscillations in astrophysical magnetic fields, leading to spectral distortions in the $\gamma$-ray spectrum of blazars. The primary uncertainty of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 Lin-Qing Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Jun Li , Peng-Fei Yin
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