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Motivated by the more and more abundant experimental data, we revisit the couplings of axion-like particle (ALP) to electroweak gauge bosons across the ALP mass range from MeV to 100 GeV. The current and future experimental limits on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Jin Sun , Zhi-Peng Xing , Seokhoon Yun

Tau leptons can have lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) couplings to a muon or an electron and an Axion-Like Particle (ALP). ALPs are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global U(1) symmetries. LFV ALPs have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We assume the coupling of Axion-like particle (ALP) to diphoton $g_{a\gamma\gamma} \sim 0$ and accomplish detailed analyses for the $\gamma Z$ decay mode of such heavy photophobic ALPs at the high luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Zilong Ding , Ying-nan Mao , Kechen Wang

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

Experimental searches for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) which couple to the electroweak bosons span over a wide range of ALP masses, from MeV searches at beam-dump experiments, to TeV searches at the LHC. Here we examine an interesting range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-27 Noah Steinberg

We investigate a charge-parity (CP) odd axion-like particle (ALP) featuring simultaneous CP-conserving ($a F_{\mu\nu}\tilde{F}^{\mu\nu}$) and CP-violating ($a F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}$) ALP-photon interactions at future lepton colliders. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Jian-Nan Ding , Yandong Liu , Muyuan Song

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model, and their masses can naturally be well below the electroweak scale. In the presence of couplings to electroweak bosons, these particles could be emitted in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-04 The BABAR Collaboration

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

The existence of an axion-like particle (ALP) would induce anomalous scattering of light by light. This process can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider in central exclusive production of photon pairs in proton-proton collisions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Cristian Baldenegro , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Christophe Royon

The current status and future prospects of searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) at colliders, mostly focused on the CERN LHC, are summarized. Constraints on ALPs with masses above a few GeV that couple to photons, as well as to Z or…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-25 David d'Enterria

We study the interaction between photons, dark photons, and axions at future lepton colliders, focusing on single-photon events with missing energy as the experimental signature. We find that future facilities such as the ILC, CEPC, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Chuan-Ren Chen , Yuan-Feng Hsieh , Van Que Tran

Axionlike particles (ALPs) emerge from spontaneously broken global symmetries in high energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This causes ALPs to be among the objectives of future experiments which intend to search for new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

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

Radiative quarkonia decays offer an ideal setting for probing Axion-Like Particle (ALP) interactions. This paper provides a comprehensive review of ALP production mechanisms through the $e^+ e^- \to \gamma\,a$ process at B- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-21 Luca Di Luzio , Alfredo Walter Mario Guerrera , Xavier Ponce Díaz , Stefano Rigolin

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

In this paper we study axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavour-violating (LFV) couplings in the mass regime above the muon threshold, $m_a>m_\mu$, where the strong bound from the exotic muon decay $\mu\to ea$ no longer apply and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Marco Ardu , Lorenzo Calibbi , Marco Fedele , Federico Mescia

The future FCC-ee collider is designed to deliver $\mathrm{e^+e^-}$ collisions to study with ultimate precision the Z, W, and Higgs bosons, and the top quark. In a high-statistics scan around the Z pole, $1.3\times 10^{11}$ events…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-18 Mogens Dam

We propose the possibility of discovering a light pseudoscalar particle $a$, axion-like particle (ALP), interacting mainly with quarks using the electron and photon scattering reaction chain $e + Z \rightarrow e + \gamma + Z$; $\gamma + Z…

We present a search for the direct production of a light pseudoscalar $a$ decaying into two photons with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We search for the process ${e^+e^-\to\gamma a, a \to\gamma\gamma}$ in the mass range…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-21 Belle II collaboration , F. Abudinen , I. Adachi , H. Aihara , N. Akopov , A. Aloisio , F. Ameli , N. Anh Ky , D. M. Asner , T. Aushev , V. Aushev , V. Babu , S. Baehr , S. Bahinipati , P. Bambade , Sw. Banerjee , S. Bansal , J. Baudot , J. Becker , P. K. Behera , J. V. Bennett , E. Bernieri , F. U. Bernlochner , M. Bertemes , M. Bessner , S. Bettarini , V. Bhardwaj , F. Bianchi , T. Bilka , S. Bilokin , D. Biswas , M. Bračko , P. Branchini , N. Braun , T. E. Browder , A. Budano , S. Bussino , M. Campajola , G. Casarosa , C. Cecchi , D. Červenkov , M. -C. Chang , P. Chang , R. Cheaib , V. Chekelian , B. G. Cheon , K. Chilikin , K. Chirapatpimol , H. -E. Cho , K. Cho , S. -J. Cho , S. -K. Choi , D. Cinabro , L. Corona , L. M. Cremaldi , S. Cunliffe , N. Dash , F. Dattola , E. De La Cruz-Burelo , G. De Nardo , M. De Nuccio , G. De Pietro , R. de Sangro , M. Destefanis , A. De Yta-Hernandez , F. Di Capua , Z. Doležal , T. V. Dong , K. Dort , D. Dossett , G. Dujany , S. Eidelman , T. Ferber , D. Ferlewicz , S. Fiore , A. Fodor , F. Forti , B. G. Fulsom , E. Ganiev , R. Garg , A. Garmash , V. Gaur , A. Gaz , U. Gebauer , A. Gellrich , T. Geßler , R. Giordano , A. Giri , B. Gobbo , R. Godang , P. Goldenzweig , B. Golob , P. Gomis , W. Gradl , E. Graziani , D. Greenwald , C. Hadjivasiliou , S. Halder , O. Hartbrich , K. Hayasaka , H. Hayashii , C. Hearty , M. T. Hedges , I. Heredia de la Cruz , M. Hernández Villanueva , A. Hershenhorn , T. Higuchi , E. C. Hill , H. Hirata , M. Hoek , M. Hohmann , C. -L. Hsu , Y. Hu , K. Inami , G. Inguglia , J. Irakkathil Jabbar , A. Ishikawa , R. Itoh , P. Jackson , W. W. Jacobs , D. E. Jaffe , E. -J. Jang , S. Jia , Y. Jin , C. Joo , A. B. Kaliyar , J. Kandra , G. Karyan , Y. Kato , H. Kichimi , C. Kiesling , C. -H. Kim , D. Y. Kim , H. J. Kim , S. -H. Kim , Y. -K. Kim , T. D. Kimmel , K. Kinoshita , C. Kleinwort , P. Kodyš , T. Koga , S. Kohani , I. Komarov , S. Korpar , T. M. G. Kraetzschmar , P. Križan , P. Krokovny , T. Kuhr , M. Kumar , R. Kumar , K. Kumara , S. Kurz , Y. -J. Kwon , S. Lacaprara , C. La Licata , L. Lanceri , J. S. Lange , I. -S. Lee , S. C. Lee , P. Leitl , D. Levit , P. M. Lewis , C. Li , L. K. Li , Y. B. Li , J. Libby , K. Lieret , L. Li Gioi , Z. Liptak , Q. Y. Liu , D. Liventsev , S. Longo , T. Luo , C. MacQueen , Y. Maeda , R. Manfredi , E. Manoni , S. Marcello , C. Marinas , A. Martini , M. Masuda , K. Matsuoka , D. Matvienko , F. Meggendorfer , F. Meier , M. Merola , F. Metzner , M. Milesi , C. Miller , K. Miyabayashi , R. Mizuk , K. Azmi , G. B. Mohanty , H. -G. Moser , M. Mrvar , F. J. Müller , R. Mussa , I. Nakamura , M. Nakao , H. Nakazawa , A. Natochii , C. Niebuhr , N. K. Nisar , S. Nishida , M. H. A. Nouxman , K. Ogawa , S. Ogawa , H. Ono , P. Oskin , H. Ozaki , P. Pakhlov , A. Paladino , A. Panta , E. Paoloni , S. Pardi , H. Park , S. -H. Park , B. Paschen , A. Passeri , A. Pathak , S. Patra , S. Paul , T. K. Pedlar , I. Peruzzi , R. Peschke , M. Piccolo , L. E. Piilonen , G. Polat , V. Popov , C. Praz , E. Prencipe , M. T. Prim , M. V. Purohit , N. Rad , P. Rados , R. Rasheed , M. Reif , S. Reiter , M. Remnev , I. Ripp-Baudot , M. Ritter , M. Ritzert , G. Rizzo , S. H. Robertson , D. Rodríguez Pérez , J. M. Roney , C. Rosenfeld , A. Rostomyan , N. Rout , D. Sahoo , Y. Sakai , D. A. Sanders , S. Sandilya , A. Sangal , L. Santelj , Y. Sato , V. Savinov , B. Scavino , C. Schwanda , A. J. Schwartz , R. M. Seddon , Y. Seino , A. Selce , K. Senyo , J. Serrano , M. E. Sevior , C. Sfienti , J. -G. Shiu , A. Sibidanov , F. Simon , R. J. Sobie , A. Soffer , E. Solovieva , S. Spataro , B. Spruck , M. Starič , S. Stefkova , Z. S. Stottler , R. Stroili , J. Strube , M. Sumihama , T. Sumiyoshi , D. J. Summers , W. Sutcliffe , H. Svidras , M. Tabata , M. Takizawa , U. Tamponi , S. Tanaka , K. Tanida , H. Tanigawa , P. Taras , F. Tenchini , D. Tonelli , E. Torassa , K. Trabelsi , M. Uchida , T. Uglov , K. Unger , Y. Unno , S. Uno , P. Urquijo , Y. Ushiroda , S. E. Vahsen , R. van Tonder , G. S. Varner , K. E. Varvell , A. Vinokurova , L. Vitale , E. Waheed , M. Wakai , H. M. Wakeling , C. H. Wang , M. -Z. Wang , X. L. Wang , A. Warburton , M. Watanabe , S. Watanuki , J. Webb , S. Wehle , M. Welsch , C. Wessel , J. Wiechczynski , H. Windel , E. Won , L. J. Wu , X. P. Xu , B. Yabsley , W. Yan , S. B. Yang , H. Ye , M. Yonenaga , C. Z. Yuan , Y. Yusa , L. Zani , Q. D. Zhou , V. I. Zhukova

Contributions of a spin 0 axion-like particle (ALP) to lepton dipole moments, g-2 and EDMs, are examined. Barr-Zee and light-by-light loop effects from a light pseudoscalar ALP are found to be capable of resolving the long-standing muon g-2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 W. J. Marciano , A. Masiero , P. Paradisi , M. Passera