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We study an axion-like particle (ALP) that experiences the first-order phase transition with respect to its mass or potential minimum. This can be realized if the ALP obtains a potential from non-perturbative effects of SU($N$) gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Shota Nakagawa , Fuminobu Takahashi , Masaki Yamada , Wen Yin

We show that very compact axion mini-clusters can form in models where axion-like-particle (ALP) dark matter is produced via the kinetic misalignment mechanism, which is well-motivated in pre-inflationary $U(1)$ symmetry breaking scenarios.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-06 Cem Eröncel , Géraldine Servant

The axion-like particle (ALP)-photon mixing in the magnetic field around $\gamma$-ray sources or along the line-of-sight could induce oscillation between photons and ALPs, which then causes irregularities in the $\gamma$-ray spectra. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Cun Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Shang Li , Neng-Hui Liao , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Zhong-Zhou Ren

The evolution of neutrinos in a fluctuating classical axion-like particles (ALPs) field is investigated. The equation for the neutrino density matrix is obtained in the Redfield form, and the corresponding dissipative matrix is derived.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-27 Alexey Lichkunov , Konstantin Stankevich , Alexander Studenikin

High-energy neutrino observation from the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 offers new insights into the non-thermal processes of active galactic nuclei. Simultaneous gamma-rays emitted by such sources can possibly oscillate into axion-like particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-18 Ariane Dekker , Gonzalo Herrera , Dimitrios Kantzas

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), 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

Axion-Like-Particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudo-scalar particles actively searched as light dark matter candidates. The coupling of ALPs to photons can give rise to distinctive spectral features in the observed gamma-ray spectrum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Cervane Grimaud , Denys Malyshev , Emmanuel Moulin

Many theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics predict the existence of axionlike particles (ALPs) that mix with photons in the presence of a magnetic field. One prominent indirect method of searching for ALPs is to look for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-12 James Davies , Manuel Meyer , Garret Cotter

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are among the most popular candidates that explain the origin of the mysterious dark matter. The most popular ALP production mechanism studied in the literature is the misalignment mechanism, where an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Cem Eröncel

We have recently shown that axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) may emit an observable stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background when they begin to oscillate in the early universe. In this note, we identify the regions of ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-23 Camila S. Machado , Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller , Ben A. Stefanek

We review searches for closed string axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) in IIB string flux compactifications. For natural values of the background fluxes and TeV scale gravitino mass, the moduli stabilisation mechanism of the LARGE…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Andreas Ringwald

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 predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model and give rise to characteristic dimming and polarization effects in a light beam travelling in a magnetic field. In this Letter, we demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandro De Angelis , Oriana Mansutti , Marco Roncadelli

Adding an axion-like particle (ALP) to the Standard Model, with a field velocity in the early universe, simultaneously explains the observed baryon and dark matter densities. This requires one or more couplings between the ALP and photons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Raymond T. Co , Lawrence J. Hall , Keisuke Harigaya

Axions and axion-like particles generically appear in extensions of the Standard Model. While many searches assume only a single axion species, there may exist a whole spectrum of multiple such fields. We develop general formulas for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Arturo de Giorgi , Joerg Jaeckel , Sebastian Monath , Volodymyr Takhistov

Axion-like particles (ALPs) belong to a class of new pseudoscalar particles that generically couple to photons, opening the possibility of oscillations from photons into ALPs in an external magnetic field. Having witnessed the turbulence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-14 Denis Wouters , Pierre Brun

The physics of axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) is enjoying an incredibly productive period, with many new experimental proposals, theoretical idea, and original astrophysical and cosmological arguments which help the search effort.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Maurizio Giannotti

We have studied the signals from axion-like particles (ALPs) as dark matter mediators from celestial objects such as neutron stars, brown dwarfs or white dwarfs. We consider the accumulation of dark matter inside the celestial objects using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 Tanech Klangburam , Chakrit Pongkitivanichkul

We give an overview of collider searches for Axion-like particles (ALPs). The intention of this review is to give a pedagogical introduction to collider phenomenology of ALPs, and provide a starting point for newcomers, including suitable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-28 Anke Biekötter , Ken Mimasu