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We propose the use of FASER as a light-shining-through-walls experiment to search for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs). LHC collisions generate a high intensity and high energy photon flux in the forward direction which can oscillate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-16 Felix Kling , Pablo Quílez

We propose an interferometry experiment for the detection of axion-like particles (ALPs). As in ordinary photon-regeneration (light shining through a wall) experiments, a laser beam traverses a region permeated by a magnetic field, where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-28 H. Tam , Q. Yang

Background radiation fields pervade the Universe, and above a certain energy any $\gamma$-ray flux emitted by an extragalactic source should be attenuated due to $e^+e^-$ pair production. The opacity could be alleviated if photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 Manuel Meyer , Daniele Montanino , Jan Conrad

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) are one promising kind of dark matter candidate particles that are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields. The oscillations between photons and ALPs travelling in the magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Jia Bu , Ya-Ping Li

Photons couple to Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) or more generally to any pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson in the presence of an external electromagnetic field. Mixing between photons and ALPs in the strong magnetic field of a Gamma-Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-18 Olga Mena , Soebur Razzaque , F. Villaescusa-Navarro

Axionlike particles (ALPs) can be produced in the Sun, and are considered viable candidates for the cosmological dark matter (DM). It can decay into two photons or interact with matter. We identify new inelastic channels of inverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 C. -P. Wu , C. -P. Liu , Greeshma C. , L. Singh , J. -W. Chen , H. -C. Chi , M. K. Pandey , H. T. Wong

Axion-like particles (ALPs) interacting with the Standard Model can be abundantly produced in proton beam fixed-target experiments. Looking for their displaced decays is therefore an effective search strategy for ALPs with a mass in the MeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-08 Nikita Blinov , Elizabeth Kowalczyk , Margaret Wynne

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

We demonstrate that the scatter in the luminosity relations of astrophysical objects can be used to search for axion-like-particles (ALPs). This analysis is applied to observations of active galactic nuclei, where we find evidence strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-30 Clare Burrage , Anne-Christine Davis , Douglas J. Shaw

The observation of a non-vanishing rotation of linear polarized laser light after passage through a strong magnetic field by the PVLAS collaboration has renewed the interest in light particles coupled to photons. Axions are a species of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joerg Jaeckel

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

The detection of very high-energy neutrinos by IceCube experiment supports the existence of a comparable gamma-ray counterpart from the same cosmic accelerators. Under the likely assumption that the sources of these particles are of…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted in some well-motivated theories beyond the Standard Model. The TeV gamma-rays from active galactic nuclei (AGN) suffer attenuation by the pair production interactions with the cosmic background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-11 Guangbo Long , Siyu Chen , Shuo Xu , Hong-Hao Zhang

Dark Matter (DM) may be comprised of axion-like particles (ALPs) with couplings to photons and the standard model fermions. In this paper we study photon signals arising from cosmic ray (CR) electron scattering on background ALPs. For a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Alejandro Rodriguez , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Natalia Tapia Arellano

Ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates introduced by theories beyond the standard model. However, the constraints on the existence of ALPs through existing laboratory experiments are hindered by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-01 Min Jiang , Haowen Su , Antoine Garcon , Xinhua Peng , Dmitry Budker

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are promising dark matter candidates. They are typically described by a classical field, motivated by large phase space occupation numbers. Here we show that such a description is accompanied by a quantum effect:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 Michael Kopp , Vasileios Fragkos , Igor Pikovski

We study cross correlations between line intensity and weak lensing maps to search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Radiative decay of eV-mass ALPs can contribute to cosmic background emissions at optical and infrared wavelengths. Line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Masato Shirasaki

Recently it has been pointed out that a cosmic background of relativistic axion-like particles (ALPs) would be produced by the primordial decays of heavy fields in the post-inflation epoch, contributing to the extra-radiation content in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Carmelo Evoli , Matteo Leo , Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino

If axion-like particles (ALPs) exist, photons can convert to ALPs on passage through regions containing magnetic fields. The magnetised intracluster medium of large galaxy clusters provides a region that is highly efficient at ALP-photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Linhan Chen , Joseph P. Conlon

We review the physics of ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) as dark matter candidates and the experimental strategies used to search for them with precision and quantum technologies. In the ultralight regime, the enormous occupation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Sreemanti Chakraborti