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Tau leptons can have lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) couplings to a muon or an electron and an Axion-Like Particle (ALP). ALPs are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global U(1) symmetries. LFV ALPs have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken global symmetries in high-energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This makes them a prime target for future experiments aiming to discover new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Martin Bauer , Mathias Heiles , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global $U(1)$ symmetries. Such particles can have lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) couplings to the SM charged leptons. LFV ALPs provide the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-24 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We study the discovery potential for heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) and the perspectives for determining their coupling properties at a muon collider. Focusing on their couplings to the Standard Model (SM) gauge bosons $\gamma, Z,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-11 Tao Han , Tong Li , Xing Wang

A high-energy muon collider with center-of-mass energy around and above 10 TeV is also a vector boson fusion (VBF) machine, due to the significant virtual electroweak (EW) gauge boson content of high-energy muon beams. This feature,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-13 Yunjia Bao , JiJi Fan , Lingfeng Li

Axion-like particles can couple to Standard Model gluons, electroweak gauge bosons, and massive fermions. A future multi-TeV muon collider provides a favorable environment to probe axion-like particles through multiple production channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 So Chigusa , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Yufei Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are new particles that extend beyond the standard model (SM) and are highly motivated. When considering ALPs within an effective field theory framework, their couplings with SM particles can be studied…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-04 Chih-Ting Lu , Xiaoyi Luo , Xinqi Wei

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) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global symmetries emerging in many extensions of the Standard Model. Assuming the most general effective Lagrangian up to dimension-5…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-08 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Daruosh Haji Raissi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

Axionlike particles (ALPs) emerge from spontaneously broken global symmetries in high energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This causes ALPs to be among the objectives of future experiments which intend to search for new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Yasaman Hosseini , 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

We perform a feasibility study to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) using vector boson fusion (VBF) processes at the LHC. We work in an effective field theory framework with cutoff scale $\Lambda$ and ALP mass $m_{a}$, and assume that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Andrés Flórez , Alfredo Gurrola , Will Johns , Paul Sheldon , Elijah Sheridan , Kuver Sinha , Brandon Soubasis

We have examined the sensitivity to the axion-like particle (ALP) couplings to electroweak gauge bosons in the diphoton production at a future muon collider. The collisions at the $\mu^+ \mu^-$ energies of 3 TeV, 14 TeV, and 100 TeV are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-08 S. C. İnan , A. V. Kisselev

In this paper we study axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavour-violating (LFV) couplings in the mass regime above the muon threshold, $m_a>m_\mu$, where the strong bound from the exotic muon decay $\mu\to ea$ no longer apply and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Marco Ardu , Lorenzo Calibbi , Marco Fedele , Federico Mescia

We propose a new collider probe for axion-like particles (ALPs), and more generally for pseudo-Goldstone bosons: non-resonant searches which take advantage of the derivative nature of their interactions with Standard Model particles. ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 M. B. Gavela , J. M. No , V. Sanz , J. F. de Trocóniz

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model (SM) that appear in many new physics scenarios, with masses spanning a broad range. In this work, we systematically study the production and detection prospects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Shou-shan Bao , Yang Ma , Yongcheng Wu , Keping Xie , Hong Zhang

A search for a new pseudoscalar $a$-boson produced in events with a top-quark pair, where the $a$-boson decays into a pair of muons, is performed using $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV $pp$ collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-20 ATLAS Collaboration

We study the possibility of finding the axion-like particles (ALPs) through the leptonic decays of heavy mesons. The Standard Model (SM) predictions of the branching ratios of the leptonic decays of heavy mesons are less than the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Gang Yang , Tianhong Wang , Guo-Li Wang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are interesting dark matter candidates both from the theoretical as well as from the experimental perspective. Usually they are motivated as pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons. In this case one of their most important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Joerg Jaeckel
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