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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

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

We propose a novel method to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) at particle accelerator experiments (exps). ALPs produced at the target via the Primakoff effect subsequently enter a region with a magnetic field, where they are converted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Walter M. Bonivento , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha

Axion and axion-like particles (ALPs), predicted by various extensions of the Standard Model, can be copiously produced in nuclear reactors via the Primakoff process. In this work, we explore the detection of such relativistic ALPs through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Yuanlin Gong , Jun Guo , Ning Liu , Liangliang Su , Wen-Na Yang

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

We propose a new method to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) based on the gamma-rays produced concomitant with high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The existence of high-energy neutrinos implies production of gamma-rays in the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-07 Hendrik Vogel , Ranjan Laha , Manuel Meyer

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a promising direction in the search for new physics, while a wide range of models incorporate ALPs. We point out that future neutrino experiments, such as DUNE, possess competitive sensitivity to ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Vedran Brdar , Bhaskar Dutta , Wooyoung Jang , Doojin Kim , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Adrian Thompson , Jaehoon Yu

We report on the results of the first search for the production of axion-like particles (ALP) via Primakoff production on nuclear targets using the GlueX detector. This search uses an integrated luminosity of 100 pb$^{-1}\cdot$nucleon on a…

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

Hypothetical axion-like particles (ALPs) are of interest because of their potential to act as dark matter or to reveal information about yet undiscovered fundamental constituents of matter. Such particles can be created when photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Denys Malyshev , Lidiia Zadorozhna , Yuriy Bidasyuk , Andrea Santangelo , Oleg Ruchayskiy

Axion-like particles (ALP) are promising candidates to comprise all the dark matter in the universe. We investigate the ALP couplings to photons and electrons via astrophysical measurements through the search for very-high-energy gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-23 Victor P. Goncalves , Emmanuel Moulin , Igor Reis , Aion Viana

There are broadly three channels to probe axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in the laboratory: through their subsequent decay to Standard Model (SM) particles, their scattering with SM particles, or their subsequent conversion to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-20 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

Short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments using large organic liquid scintillator detectors provide an experimentally rich environment for precise neutrino physics. Neutrino detection is done through inverse beta decay and relies on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 D. Aristizabal Sierra , L. Duque , O. Miranda , H. Nunokawa

The existence of an axion-like particle (ALP) would induce anomalous scattering of light by light. This process can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider in central exclusive production of photon pairs in proton-proton collisions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Cristian Baldenegro , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Christophe Royon

Nuclear power plants are not only vital sources of clean energy but also powerful facilities for probing new physics beyond the Standard Model. Due to the intense gamma-ray flux and an appropriate energy conditions, they are particularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Wei Dai , Yuanlin Gong , Guanhua Gu , Liangliang Su , Li Wang , Lei Wu , Yongcheng Wu , Litao Yang

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…

The hypothetical axion and axion-like particles, feebly coupled with photon, have not yet been found in any experiment. With the improvement of laser technique, much stronger but shorter quasi-static electric and magnetic fields can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Shan Huang , Baifei Shen , Zhigang Bu , Xiaomei Zhang , Liangliang Ji , Shuhua Zhai

Axion-like particles (ALPs) produced via the Primakoff process in the cores of Galactic core-collapse supernovae (SNe) could convert into MeV-energy gamma-rays through interactions with the Milky Way's magnetic field. To evaluate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Zhen Xie , Jiahao Liu , Bing Liu , Ruizhi Yang

Searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) are motivated by the strong CP problem in particle physics and by unexplained dark matter in astrophysics. In this letter, we discuss novel ALP searches using monoenergetic nuclear de-excitation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-29 Loyd Waites , Adrian Thompson , Adriana Bungau , Janet M. Conrad , Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Doojin Kim , Michael Shaevitz , Joshua Spitz

The Sun is a well-studied astrophysical source of axion-like particles (ALPs), produced mainly through the Primakoff process. Moreover, in the Sun there exist large-scale magnetic fields that catalyze an additional ALP production via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-01 Ersilia Guarini , Pierluca Carenza , Javier Galan , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi
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