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With their high beam energy and intensity, existing and near-future proton beam dumps provide an excellent opportunity to search for new very weakly coupled particles in the MeV to GeV mass range. One particularly interesting example is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-10 Babette Döbrich , Joerg Jaeckel , Felix Kahlhoefer , Andreas Ringwald , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

We compute the one-loop contribution to the $\bar{\theta}$-parameter of an axion-like particle (ALP) with CP-odd derivative couplings. Its contribution to the neutron electric dipole moment is shown to be orders of magnitude larger than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 Victor Enguita , Belen Gavela , Benjamin Grinstein , Pablo Quilez

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). When ALP mass lies in the range of MeV to GeV, the cosmology and astrophysics will be largely irrelevant. In this work, we investigate such light ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Daohan Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Mengchao Zhang

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

New pseudo-scalars, often called axion-like particles (ALPs), abound in model-building and are often associated with the breaking of a new symmetry. Traditional searches and indirect bounds are limited to light axions, typically in or below…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Ken Mimasu , Verónica Sanz

The problem of the origin of the mu parameter in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model can be solved by introducing singlet supermultiplets with non-renormalizable couplings to the ordinary Higgs supermultiplets. The Peccei-Quinn…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen P. Martin

We present a comprehensive study of axion-like particles (ALPs) through flavor changing neutral current processes, such as $B\to K a$ followed by $a\to\text{hadronic}, \gamma\gamma,\mu^+\mu^-$ channels. Our generic framework encompasses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-14 Deepanshu Bisht , Sabyasachi Chakraborty , Atanu Samanta

Observational evidences of nonzero neutrino masses and the existence of dark matter request physics beyond standard model. A model with extra scalars and leptonic vector-like fermions is introduced. By imposing a Z_2 symmetry, the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-20 Chian-Shu Chen , Chung-Hsien Chou

Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of ALPs, which are very light spin-zero bosons with a two-photon coupling. Photon-ALP oscillations occur in the presence of an external magnetic field, and ALPs can lead to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Alessandro De Angelis , Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

Murayama proposed a GeV-scale axion theory where the up-quark mass term is generated dynamically by the QCD chiral condensate, spontaneously breaking a Peccei-Quinn symmetry. It predicts a too large mass splitting between neutral and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 Luca Di Luzio , Michele Redi , Alessandro Strumia , Andrea Tesi , Arsenii V. Titov

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 propose a new nonthermal leptogenesis mechanism triggered by the cosmic first-order phase transition. The Standard Model is extended with two generations of TeV-scale vectorlike leptons. The lighter generation gives rise to an inverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-26 Wen-Yuan Ai , Peisi Huang , Ke-Pan Xie

We pursue a class of visible axion models where the axion mass is enhanced by strong dynamics in a mirrored copy of the Standard Model in the line of the idea put forward by Rubakov. In particular, we examine the consistency of the models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-29 Hajime Fukuda , Keisuke Harigaya , Masahiro Ibe , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Although axion-like particles (ALPs) are popular dark matter candidates, their mass generation mechanisms as well as cosmic thermal evolutions are still unclear. In this letter, we propose a new mass generation mechanism of ALP during the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-25 Wei Chao , Mingjie Jin , Hai-Jun Li , Ying-Quan Peng

We review the physics case for very weakly coupled ultralight particles beyond the Standard Model, in particular for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs): (i) the axionic solution of the strong CP problem and its embedding in well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-07 A. Ringwald

Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), very light spin-zero bosons with a two-photon coupling. ALPs can give rise to observable effects in very-high-energy astrophysics. Above roughly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Marco Roncadelli , Alessandro De Angelis , Giorgio Galanti

In this paper we present an in-depth analysis of a recently proposed Standard Model extension with a complete fourth generation of quarks and leptons, which are vector-like with respect to the Standard Model gauge group and charged under a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-26 Junichiro Kawamura , Stuart Raby , Andreas Trautner

Recently, it was pointed out that the electron and muon g-2 discrepancies can be explained simultaneously by a flavor-violating axion-like particle (ALP). We show that the parameter regions favored by the muon g-2 are already excluded by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-19 Motoi Endo , Syuhei Iguro , Teppei Kitahara

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles and compelling candidates for cold dark matter. Their existence could be probed through their conversions into photons in the presence of magnetic fields. In this work, we explore the…

The proposal for a high-energy muon collider offers many opportunities in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). The collider by construction is likely to be more sensitive to the muon-philic models, primarily motivated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-14 Nivedita Ghosh , Santosh Kumar Rai , Tousik Samui