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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

The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems center is developing searches for dark photons, axions and ALPs with the goal of improving upon the current state-of-the-art sensitivity. These efforts leverage on Fermi National Accelerator…

Axion Like Particles (ALPs), postulated to solve the strong-CP problem, are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields, which may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-04 Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

We report a laboratory search for axion-like particles (ALPs) in the eV-mass range using a variable-angle three-beam stimulated resonant photon collider. The scheme independently focuses and collides three laser beams, providing a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-05 Takumi Hasada , Kensuke Homma , Airi Kodama , Haruhiko Nishizaki , Yuri Kirita , Shin-ichiro Masuno , Shigeki Tokita , Masaki Hashida

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) can decay into two photons with a rest-frame frequency given by half of the ALP mass. This implies that ultra-violet searches can be used to investigate ALPs in the multi-eV mass range. We use archival data from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Elisa Todarello , Marco Regis

Experimental searches for axions or axion-like particles rely on semiclassical phenomena resulting from the postulated coupling of the axion to two photons. Sensitive probes of the extremely small coupling constant can be made by exploiting…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-09-28 Aaron S. Chou

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

Conventional approaches to probing axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) typically rely on a coupling to photons. However, if this coupling is extremely weak, ALPs become invisible and are effectively decoupled from the Standard Model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Camila S. Machado , Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller , Ben A. Stefanek

Leptophilic axion-like particles (ALPs) exhibit rich phenomenology, focusing exclusively on interactions between an ALP and Standard Model (SM) leptons. Through integration by parts, it is shown that both the three-point interaction,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Xu-Hui Jiang , Chih-Ting Lu

A resonantly-enhanced photon-regeneration experiment to search for the axion or axion-like particles is described. This experiment is a shining light through walls study, where photons travelling through a strong magnetic field are (in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Guido Mueller , Pierre Sikivie , D. B. Tanner , Karl van Bibber

The dark photon is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model and provides a minimal laboratory for quantum-mechanical phenomena. Light-shining-through-a-wall (LSW) searches often adopt the dark photon-photon oscillation formula…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Wen Yin

We conduct the first ``light-shining-through-wall" (LSW) search for dark photons using two state-of-the-art high quality-factor superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities and report the results of its pathfinder run. Our new…

In this work, we present a lattice study of an axion - dark photon system in the early Universe and show that the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background produced by this system may be probed by future GW experiments across a vast…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller , Ben A. Stefanek

We perform a comprehensive analysis of dark matter-nucleon scattering via the exchange of axion-like particles (ALPs). At first sight, this might appear of little practical use, as non-relativistic scattering through pseudo-scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Wim Beenakker , Daniël Mikkers , Anh Vu Phan , Susanne Westhoff

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant enigmas in modern cosmology. Axion-like particles (ALPs), as well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter, can undergo radiative decay into photon pairs, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Wen-Qing Guo

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates that couple to photons in external magnetic fields. The parameter space around $m_a \sim 50~\mu$eV remains largely unexplored by haloscope experiments. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-09 Josep Maria Batllori , Michael Frosz , Dieter Horns , Marios Maroudas

We propose a new search for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), targeting Vector Boson Scattering (VBS) processes at the LHC. We consider nonresonant ALP-mediated VBS, where the ALP participates as an off-shell mediator. This process occurs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-23 J. Bonilla , I. Brivio , J. Machado-Rodríguez , J. F. de Trocóniz

Weakly interactive slim particles (WISPs), including the QCD axion, axion-like particles (ALPs), and hidden photons, are considered to be strong candidates for the dark matter carrier particle. The microwave cavity experiment WISPDMX is the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-11 Le Hoang Nguyen , Dieter Horns , Andrei Lobanov , Andreas Ringwald