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We compute the one-loop contribution to the $\bar{\theta}$-parameter of an axion-like particle (ALP) with CP-odd derivative couplings. Its contribution to the neutron electric dipole moment is shown to be orders of magnitude larger than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 Victor Enguita , Belen Gavela , Benjamin Grinstein , Pablo Quilez

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

Pseudo-scalar particles, often referred to as axion-like-particles (ALPs), arise in a variety of theoretical contexts. The phenomenology of such states is typically studied assuming flavor-conserving interactions, yet they can in principle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-08 Hooman Davoudiasl , Roman Marcarelli , Nicholas Miesch , Ethan T. Neil

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) offers a powerful theoretical framework for parameterizing the low-energy effects of heavy new particles with masses far above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking. Additional light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-17 Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can provide a portal to new states of a dark sector. We study the phenomenology of this portal when the ALP mainly decays invisibly, while its interaction with the standard model sector proceeds essentially via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Luc Darmé , Federica Giacchino , Enrico Nardi , Mauro Raggi

New pseudoscalars, axion-like particles (ALPs), provide the exciting target for present and future collider-based experiments. Search for ALPs is performed in this paper via the $W^{+}W^{-}$ fusion process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Chong-Xing Yue , Han Wang , Yue-Qi Wang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a well-motivated framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, coupling to gauge bosons through dimension-five operators protected by an approximate shift symmetry. At the LHC, such interactions lead…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Fabian Esser , Alexandre Salas-Bernardez , Maria Ubiali , Veronica Sanz

We investigate charged lepton flavor violating processes $\mu\rightarrow e \gamma$, $\mu\rightarrow e e \overline{e}$ and $\mu-e$ conversion in nuclei for a class of three-loop radiative neutrino mass generation models with electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Talal Ahmed Chowdhury , Salah Nasri

We study portal interactions connecting visible and dark sectors, and involving local interactions of a photon, a dark photon and a axion-like particle (ALP) at future $e^+e^-$ colliders. These interactions, mediated by higher-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-01 Sanjoy Biswas , Anirban Chatterjee , Emidio Gabrielli , Barbara Mele

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are both well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. As ALPs couple to on-shell fermions proportionally to their masses, processes involving both types of particles may give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Arturo de Giorgi , Luca Merlo , Jean-Loup Tastet

Koike et al. proposed the charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) decay of the muonic atom $\mu^-e^-\rightarrow e^-e^-$ as one of the promising processes to search for new physics beyond the standard model. It was found that the attractive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-25 Yuichi Uesaka , Yoshitaka Kuno , Joe Sato , Toru Sato , Masato Yamanaka

We study the possibility of probing the existence of a light, invisible, axion-like particle (ALP) $a$ in leptonic decays of the $Z$ boson at the proposed high-energy $e^+e^-$ colliders, CEPC and FCC-ee. Both projects plan to run at the $Z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-11 Lorenzo Calibbi , Zijie Huang , Shaoyang Qin , Yiming Yang , Xiaoyue Yin

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

The charged lepton flavor violating (CLFV) processes of $\mu^-e^-\rightarrow e^-e^-$ decay by four Fermi contact interactions in a muonic atom for various atoms are investigated. The wave functions of bound and scattering state leptons are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-27 Yuichi Uesaka , Yoshitaka Kuno , Joe Sato , Toru Sato , Masato Yamanaka

Future muon colliders with center-of-mass energy of $\mathcal{O}(1-10)$ TeV can provide a clean high-energy environment with advantages in searches for TeV-scale axion-like particles (ALPs), pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 So Chigusa , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Yufei Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) arise in a variety of theoretical contexts and can, in general, mediate flavor violating interactions and parity non-conservation. We consider lepton flavor violating ALPs with GeV scale or larger masses which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-08 Hooman Davoudiasl , Roman Marcarelli , Ethan T. Neil

We study the sensitivity of fixed target experiments to hadronically-coupled axion like particles (ALPs) produced in kaon decays, with a particular emphasis on current and upcoming short-baseline neutrino experiments. We demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-15 Joshua Berger , Gray Putnam

The sensitivity of the proposed FCC-ee collider to axion-like particles (ALPs) is investigated at all planned center-of-mass energies, with focus on the case where the ALP couples primarily to electroweak gauge bosons at leading order. We…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear from spontaneous global symmetry breaking in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we find bounds on ALP ($a$) model parameters at the LHC from the ALP production associated with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Javad Ebadi , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). We explore the discovery potential for ALPs of the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) via the $W^{+}W^{-}$ fusion process. For concreteness, both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 Chong-Xing Yue , Han Wang , Xue-Jia Cheng , Yue-Qi Wang