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Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

We study the decay of the $Z$ vector boson into a photon and a massless (invisible) dark photon in high-energy collisions. The photon can be used as trigger for the event, while the dark photon is detected indirectly as missing momentum in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 M. Cobal , C. De Dominicis , M. Fabbrichesi , E. Gabrielli , J. Magro , B. Mele , G. Panizzo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken global symmetries in high-energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This makes them a prime target for future experiments aiming to discover new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Martin Bauer , Mathias Heiles , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

The Electron-Ion Collider~(EIC), a forthcoming powerful high-luminosity facility, represents an exciting opportunity to explore new physics. In this article, we study the potential of the EIC to probe the coupling between axion-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-01 Reuven Balkin , Or Hen , Wenliang Li , Hongkai Liu , Teng Ma , Yotam Soreq , Mike Williams

We interpret the recent excess in a rare decay of the Higgs boson, $H\to Z\gamma$, using a light axion-like particle (ALP) in the massrange $0.05 - 0.1$ GeV.The dominant decay of such a light ALP is into a pair of collimated photons, whose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Kingman Cheung , C. J. Ouseph

In this work, prospects to probe an overlooked facet of axion-like particles (ALPs) -- their potential couplings to sterile neutrinos -- are presented. We found that mono-photon searches have the potential to constrain ALP couplings to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-18 Alexandre Alves , Alex G. Dias , Diego D. Lopes

We study the collider phenomenology of leptophilic axion-like particles (ALPs), i.e. pseudoscalar particles that couple only to charged leptons. Loops of charged leptons induce effective interactions of the ALPs with photons, which depend…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Alexander Eberhart , Marco Fedele , Felix Kahlhoefer , Eike Ravensburg , Robert Ziegler

We propose a fixed-target experiment to search for Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling to photons, which utilizes electron and positron beams available at KEK Linac. The sensitivity to ALP is evaluated for two shielding setups in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Akimasa Ishikawa , Yasuhito Sakaki , Yosuke Takubo

We have examined the sensitivity to the axion-like particle (ALP) couplings to electroweak gauge bosons in the diphoton production at a future muon collider. The collisions at the $\mu^+ \mu^-$ energies of 3 TeV, 14 TeV, and 100 TeV are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-08 S. C. İnan , A. V. Kisselev

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

We assess the status of past and future experiments on lepton flavor violating (LFV) muon and tau decays into a light, invisible, axion-like particle (ALP), $a$. We propose a new experimental setup for MEG II, the MEGII-fwd, with a forward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-18 Lorenzo Calibbi , Diego Redigolo , Robert Ziegler , Jure Zupan

We perform a feasibility study of a beam dump experiment at the International Linear Collider (ILC). To investigate the sensitivity to new light particles at the experiment, we consider models for axion-like particles (ALPs) and a light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Yasuhito Sakaki , Daiki Ueda

In this work, we calculate the sensitivities on the gauge-boson couplings $g_{aZZ}$, $g_{aZ\gamma}$, and $g_{aWW}$ of an axion-like particle (ALP) that one can achieve at the LHC with $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV and integrated luminosities of 300…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-08 Kingman Cheung , Wanyon Hsiao , C. J. Ouseph , Chen Wang

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

Dark axion portal connects an axion-like-particle (ALP), which can be the QCD axion, with the SM by the coupling to a photon and a dark photon, leading to a rich and distinct phenomenology related to dark matter, astrophysics, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Krzysztof Jodłowski

We review topics in searches for axion-like-particles (ALPs), covering material that is complementary to other recent reviews. The first half of our review covers ALPs in the extreme environments of neutron star cores, the magnetospheres of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Jean-François Fortin , Huai-Ke Guo , Steven P. Harris , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha , Chen Sun

We explore the potential of the Mu2e experiment to probe the lepton-flavor-violating process $\mu^- e^- \to e^- e^-$ in a muonic atom within a simplified axion-like particle (ALP) framework featuring flavor-violating $e$-$\mu$ couplings and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Girish Kumar , Alexey A. Petrov

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated examples of light, weakly coupled particles in theories beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we study long-lived ALPs coupled exclusively to leptons in the mass range between $2 m_e$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Yohei Ema , Patrick J. Fox , Matheus Hostert , Tony Menzo , Maxim Pospelov , Anupam Ray , Jure Zupan

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global $U(1)$ symmetries. Such particles can have lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) couplings to the SM charged leptons. LFV ALPs provide the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-24 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavor violating couplings can be probed in exotic muon and tau decays. The sensitivity of different experiments depends strongly on the ALP mass and its couplings to leptons and photons. For ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner , Marvin Schnubel , Andrea Thamm