English
Related papers

Related papers: Testing axion couplings to leptons in $Z$ decays a…

200 papers

The decay of the $Z$ boson into axion-like particles (ALP) at the $Z$-pole run of the proposed CERN FCC-ee collider is investigated. We perform a detailed study of final states with three photons or with a single photon and missing energy,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-13 Giacomo Polesello

The axion-like particle (ALP) is one of the best motivated particles beyond the Standard Model (SM). We explore the possibility of detecting the couplings of ALP with leptons via three-lepton final state processes $e^- p \to e^- j a~(a \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-03 Chong-Xing Yue , Xin-Yang Li , Mei-Shu-Yu Wang , Yang-Yang Bu

The sensitivity of the proposed FCC-ee collider to axion-like particles (ALPs) is investigated at all planned center-of-mass energies, with focus on the case where the ALP couples primarily to electroweak gauge bosons at leading order. We…

We explore the possibility of detecting the couplings of axion-like particle (ALP) with leptons from their loop-level impact on the ALP couplings to electroweak (EW) gauge bosons via the signal process $e^+ e^- \to \gamma \gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-08 Chong-Xing Yue , Xin-Yang Li , Xiao-Chen Sun

We investigate the prospects for discovering axion-like particles (ALPs) via a light-by-light (LBL) scattering at two colliders, the future circular collider (FCC-ee) and circular electron-positron collider (CEPC). The promising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Hua-Ying Zhang , Chong-Xing Yue , Yu-Chen Guo , Shuo Yang

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

We revisit the theory and constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) interacting with leptons. We clarify some subtleties in the constraints on ALP parameter space and find several new opportunities for ALP detection. We identify a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-23 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Jeff A. Dror , Stefania Gori

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

We explore the possibility of searching for axionlike particle (ALP) by $ep$ collisions via the subprocess $e^{-}\gamma \rightarrow e^{-}a \rightarrow e^{-}\gamma\gamma$. Sensitivities to the effective ALP-photon coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-18 Chong-Xing Yue , Ming-Ze Liu , Yu-Chen Guo

Opportunities for searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling to photons in $\mathrm{e}^+\mathrm{e}^-$ collisions at the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) and International Linear Collider (ILC) are investigated. We perform a study of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-28 Patricia Rebello Teles , David d'Enterria , Victor P. Gonçalves , Daniel E. Martins

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

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

We study the possibility of finding the axion-like particles (ALPs) through the leptonic decays of heavy mesons. The Standard Model (SM) predictions of the branching ratios of the leptonic decays of heavy mesons are less than the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Gang Yang , Tianhong Wang , Guo-Li Wang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can provide a portal to new states of a dark sector. We study the phenomenology of this portal when the ALP mainly decays invisibly, while its interaction with the standard model sector proceeds essentially via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Luc Darmé , Federica Giacchino , Enrico Nardi , Mauro Raggi

We investigate the potential to probe axion-like particles (ALPs) under the photophobic scenario at the FCC-ee and CEPC at the Z-pole, with $\sqrt{s} = 91.2$ GeV. The signal process is $$ e^+e^- \to Z \to \gamma a,\quad a \to \ell^+ \ell^-,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-23 Shi-Yu Wang , Yu-Peng Jiao , Hong-Hao Zhang , Giacomo Cacciapaglia

We perform a feasibility study to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) using vector boson fusion (VBF) processes at the LHC. We work in an effective field theory framework with cutoff scale $\Lambda$ and ALP mass $m_{a}$, and assume that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Andrés Flórez , Alfredo Gurrola , Will Johns , Paul Sheldon , Elijah Sheridan , Kuver Sinha , Brandon Soubasis

The axion-like particle (ALP) is a well motivated new particle candidate of beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we propose to probe the ALP through the photon fusion scattering at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Yandong Liu , Bin Yan

In our previous work [Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 075046], we have proposed to install FAr Detectors at the Electron Positron Collider (FADEPC) to enhance the discovery potential of long-lived particles (LLPs). In this study, we consider eight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-21 Minglun Tian , Zeren Simon Wang , Kechen Wang

A virtual production of heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) via light-by-light scattering in pp, pPb and Pb collisions at the future 100 TeV collider FCC-hh is studied. Both differential and total cross sections are calculated. The 95\% C.L.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 S. C. Inan , A. V. Kisselev

The Tera-Z phase of future $e^+ e^-$ colliders, FCC-ee and CepC, is a goldmine for exploring $Z$ portal physics. We focus on axion-like particles (ALPs) that can be produced via $Z$ decays with a monochromatic photon. As a template model,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-28 G. Cacciapaglia , A. Deandrea , A. M. Iyer , K. Sridhar
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›