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Axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton flavour violating (LFV) interactions are predicted within a wide range of flavoured ALP models. The proposed $\mu$TRISTAN high-energy $e^-\mu^+$ and $\mu^+\mu^+$ collider will provide a good…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-21 Lorenzo Calibbi , Tong Li , Lopamudra Mukherjee , Yiming Yang

We study axion-like particles (ALPs) whose dominant interactions are with gluons and third-generation quarks, and whose couplings to light Standard Model (SM) particles arise at one loop. These loop-induced effects lead to ALP decays and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Jon Butterworth , Matthew Cullingworth , Joseph Egan , Fabian Esser , Veronica Sanz , Maria Ubiali

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

Axion-Like-Particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudo-scalar particles actively searched as light dark matter candidates. The coupling of ALPs to photons can give rise to distinctive spectral features in the observed gamma-ray spectrum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Cervane Grimaud , Denys Malyshev , Emmanuel Moulin

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 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

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

In this paper, we explore the phenomenology of massive Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) coupled to quarks and gluons, dubbed 'QCD ALPs', with an emphasis on the associated low-energy observables. ALPs coupled to gluons and quarks not only induce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Alessandro Lella , Eike Ravensburg , Pierluca Carenza , M. C. David Marsh

We present a novel data-driven method for determining the hadronic interaction strengths of axion-like particles (ALPs) with QCD-scale masses. Using our method, it is possible to calculate the hadronic production and decay rates of ALPs,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Daniel Aloni , Yotam Soreq , Mike Williams

In this work, we explore the possibilities of producing Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) in a future $e^-p$ collider. Specifically, we focus on the proposed Large Hadron electron collider (LHeC), which can achieve a center-of-mass energy of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-19 Karabo Mosala , Pramod Sharma , Mukesh Kumar , Ashok Goyal

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

We propose a new collider probe for axion-like particles (ALPs), and more generally for pseudo-Goldstone bosons: non-resonant searches which take advantage of the derivative nature of their interactions with Standard Model particles. ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 M. B. Gavela , J. M. No , V. Sanz , J. F. de Trocóniz

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

We present a covariant framework for analyzing the interactions and decay rates of axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple to both gluons and quarks. We identify combinations of couplings that are invariant under quark-field redefinitions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Reuven Balkin , Ta'el Coren , Yotam Soreq , Mike Williams

Measurements of the top quark by the ATLAS and CMS experiments go beyond testing the Standard Model (SM) with high precision. Axion-like particles (ALPs), a potential SM extension involving new pseudoscalar particles, exhibit strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Anh Vu Phan

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear in various new physics models with spontaneous global symmetry breaking. When the ALP mass is in the range of MeV to GeV, the cosmology and astrophysics bounds are so far quite weak. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Jie Ren , Daohan Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Mengchao Zhang

Reactor neutrino experiments provide a rich environment for the study of axionlike particles (ALPs). Using the intense photon flux produced in the nuclear reactor core, these experiments have the potential to probe ALPs with masses below 10…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-05 D. Aristizabal Sierra , V. De Romeri , L. J. Flores , D. K. Papoulias

The low-energy effective field theory (LEFT) provides the appropriate framework to describe particle interactions below the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, $\mu_w\sim v$. By matching the Standard Model onto the LEFT, non-zero Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-04 Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert

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…

Searches for pseudoscalar axion-like-particles (ALPs) typically rely on their decay in beam dumps or their conversion into photons in haloscopes and helioscopes. We point out a new experimental direction for ALP probes through their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Doojin Kim , Shu Liao , Rupak Mahapatra , Kuver Sinha , Adrian Thompson