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We derive new constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) using precision $X$-ray polarization studies of magnetars. Specifically, we use the first detection of polarized $X$-rays from the magnetars 4U 0142+61 and 1RXS J170849.0-400910 by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-22 Ephraim Gau , Fazlollah Hajkarim , Steven P. Harris , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Jean-Francois Fortin , Henric Krawczynski , Kuver Sinha

Quiescent hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emission from neutron stars constitute a promising frontier to explore axion-like-particles (ALPs). ALP production in the core peaks at energies of a few keV to a few hundreds of keV; subsequently,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-19 Jean-François Fortin , Huai-Ke Guo , Steven P. Harris , Elijah Sheridan , Kuver Sinha

Assuming ALPs couple to gluons only, they can be produced via the $p p \to a j$ process and decay into two jets at the LHC. When the coupling parameter, $C_{\tilde{G}} / f_a$, is small, the lifetime of ALPs can be long enough leading to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-01 Filmon Andom Ghebretinsaea , Zeren Simon Wang , Kechen Wang

We observe that most studies of axion-like particle (ALP) production channels at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) focus on a single type of ALP operator for each process in the effective field theory framework. In this work, we propose an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-26 Kingman Cheung , Chih-Ting Lu , C. J. Ouseph , Priyanka Sarmah

In the presence of an axion or axion-like particle (ALP) that couples to the Standard Model via dimension-five interactions, dimension-six SMEFT interactions are generated via renormalization-group evolution. As many of these SMEFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-02 Anke Biekötter , Javier Fuentes-Martín , Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert

Limits on spin-0 axion-like-particles (ALPs) coupling to photons are reinterpreted as constraints on massive spin-2 graviton-like-particles (GLPs) with universal coupling $\alpha_\text{G}/M_\text{P}$ (where $M_\text{P}$ is the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Jordan Gué , David d'Enterria

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) with a sub-keV range mass are searched by using the light-shining-through-a-wall technique. A novel system is developed in which injected X rays are converted and reconverted by the Laue-case conversion within a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-26 T. Yamaji , K. Tamasaku , T. Namba , T. Yamazaki , Y. Seino

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are promising candidates for mediating interactions between a dark sector and the Standard Model (SM). In this work, considering the effective interactions of ALPs with the SM gauge bosons and a fermion dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Sahabub Jahedi , Soumen Kumar Manna , Arunansu Sil

We study the potential of the future Higgs factories, including the ILC, CEPC, and FCC-ee with $\sqrt{s}$ = 240-250 GeV on discovering axion-like particles (ALPs) through various production channels in the leptonic final states, $e^+e^- \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Kingman Cheung , C. J. Ouseph

We update the globular cluster bound on massive ($m_a$ up to a few 100 keV) axion-like particles (ALP) interacting with photons. The production of such particles in the stellar core is dominated by the Primakoff $\gamma + Ze\to Ze +a$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 Pierluca Carenza , Oscar Straniero , Babette Döbrich , Maurizio Giannotti , Giuseppe Lucente , Alessandro Mirizzi

We argue that a large region of so far unconstrained parameter space for axion-like particles (ALPs), where their couplings to the Standard Model are of order $(0.01\!-\!1)\,\mbox{TeV}^{-1}$, can be explored by searches for the exotic Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

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

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons can quantum mechanically interconvert when propagating through magnetic fields, and ALP-photon conversion may induce oscillatory features in the spectra of astrophysical sources. We use deep (370 ks),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-27 M. C. David Marsh , Helen R. Russell , Andrew C. Fabian , Brian R. McNamara , Paul Nulsen , Christopher S. Reynolds

The recent detection of the cosmic microwave background polarimeter experiment BICEP2 of tensor fluctuations in the B-mode power spectrum basically excludes all plausible axion models where its decay constant is above $10^{13}$ GeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 A. G. Dias , A. C. B. Machado , C. C. Nishi , A. Ringwald , P. Vaudrevange

We report on new results of a search for two-photon interaction with axionlike particles (ALPs). The experiment was carried out at a synchrotron radiation facility using a "light shining through a wall (LSW)" technique. For this purpose, we…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-21 T. Inada , T. Yamazaki , T. Namba , S. Asai , T. Kobayashi , K. Tamasaku , Y. Tanaka , Y. Inubushi , K. Sawada , M. Yabashi , T. Ishikawa , A. Matsuo , K. Kawaguchi , K. Kindo , H. Nojiri

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted by several Beyond the Standard Model theories, in particular, string theory. In the presence of an external magnetic field perpendicular to the direction of propagation, ALPs can couple to photons.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Júlia Sisk Reynés , James H. Matthews , Christopher S. Reynolds , Helen R. Russell , Robyn N. Smith , M. C. David Marsh

Models with an Axion Like Particle (ALP) can provide an explanation for the discrepancy between experimental measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment $(g-2)_\mu$ and the Standard Model prediction. This explanation relies on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Jia Liu , Xiaolin Ma , Lian-Tao Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang

A consistent treatment of the quantum field theory of an axion-like particle (ALP) interacting with Standard Model fields requires to account for renormalisation group running and matching to the low-energy theory. Quantum sensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-15 Martin Bauer , Sreemanti Chakraborti , Guillaume Rostagni

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are compelling candidates for dark matter and potential portals to new physics beyond the Standard Model. Photons traversing magnetized regions can convert into ALPs, producing characteristic, energy-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Denys Malyshev , Lidiia Zadorozhna , Yuriy Bidasyuk , Andrea Santangelo , Oleg Ruchayskiy