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We present a framework linking axionlike particles (ALPs) to neutrino masses through the minimal inverse seesaw (ISS) mechanism in order to explain the dark matter (DM) puzzle. Specifically, we explore three minimal ISS cases where mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-04 C. D. R. Carvajal , B. L. Sánchez-Vega , O. Zapata

Cosmology and particle physics are closer today than ever before, with several searches underway at the interface between cosmology, particle physics, and field theory. The mystery of dark matter (DM) is one of the greatest common unsolved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-14 Ahmed Ayad

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

Axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) are one of the promising dark matter (DM) candidates. A prevalent method to detect axion-like DM is to seek periodic oscillation in the polarization angles (PAs) of linearly polarized light emitted from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-03 Bao Wang , Xuan Yang , Jun-Jie Wei , Song-Bo Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu

Limits on spin-0 axion-like-particles (ALPs) coupling to photons are reinterpreted as constraints on massive spin-2 graviton-like-particles (GLPs) with universal coupling $\alpha_\text{G}/M_\text{P}$ (where $M_\text{P}$ is the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Jordan Gué , David d'Enterria

Gamma-ray photons can convert into axion-like particles (ALPs) and vice versa when interacting with astrophysical magnetic fields. The conversions of ALPs may have important implications for astrophysics since they would imprint…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-02 Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Stefan Funk , Frank Krennrich , Amanda Weinstein

In this work, prospects to probe an overlooked facet of axion-like particles (ALPs) -- their potential couplings to sterile neutrinos -- are presented. We found that mono-photon searches have the potential to constrain ALP couplings to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-18 Alexandre Alves , Alex G. Dias , Diego D. Lopes

Despite considerable experimental progress large parts of the axion-like particle (ALP) parameter space remain difficult to probe in terrestrial experiments. In some cases, however, small-scale structure of the ALP dark matter (DM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-18 Nikita Blinov , Matthew J. Dolan , Patrick Draper

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

We propose a mechanism generating primordial magnetic fields after the $e^+e^-$ annihilations. Our mechanism involves an ultra-light axion-like particle (ALP) which constitutes the dark matter, and a dark $U(1)_X$ gauge boson introduced to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-25 Kiwoon Choi , Hyungjin Kim , Toyokazu Sekiguchi

Well-motivated extensions of the standard model predict ultra-light and fundamental pseudo-scalar particles (e.g., axions or axion-like particles: ALPs). Similarly to the Primakoff-effect for axions, ALPs can mix with photons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns

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. Searching for the effects of ALP-photon mixing in gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-24 James Davies , Manuel Meyer , Garret Cotter

Coupling of axion-like particles (ALPs) to photons in the presence of background magnetic field affects propagation of gamma-rays through magnetized environments. This results in modification in the gamma-ray spectra of sources in or behind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-14 D. Malyshev , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , A. Santangelo , J. Jochum

A strong bound on the properties of axion-like particles (ALPs) has been set by assuming that ALPs are emitted by the protoneutron star just before the core-bounce in Galactic core-collapse supernovae, and that these ALPs subsequently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-09 Ignazio Bombaci , Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

Axions or more generally axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo-scalar particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM) and considered as viable candidates for dark matter (DM) in the universe. If they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Ahmed Ayad , Geoff Beck

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

We examine the resonant conversion of axion-like particle (ALP) or dark photon to the electromagnetic photon in the early Universe, which takes place due to the ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations in background dark photon gauge fields. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Kiwoon Choi , Hyeonseok Seong , Seokhoon Yun

The axion-like particle (ALP) and primordial black hole (PBH) are two representative dark matter (DM) candidates as light bosonic DM and macroscopic objects, respectively. In this work, we investigate the gamma-ray production mechanisms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Tong Li , Rui-Jia Zhang

The excess of electron recoil events seen by the XENON1T experiment has been interpreted as a potential signal of axion-like particles (ALPs), either produced in the Sun, or constituting part of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way. It has…

A brief review of light dark matter particles and their spectroscopy is presented, specifically aimed at understanding the interaction mechanisms of axion and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with matter and an interim proposal and some ideas…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-02 Masroor H. S. Bukhari