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Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the standard model (SM) that appear in numerous new physics scenarios. In this paper, we concentrate on searches for long-lived ALPs predicted by the photophobic scenario at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Chong-Xing Yue , Xin-Yang Li , Shuo Yang , Mei-Shu-Yu Wang

Coupling of axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) with photons may lead to photons escaping optically opaque regions by oscillating into ALPs. This phenomenon may be viewed as the Light Shining through Wall (LSW) scenario. While this LSW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-27 Dibya S. Chattopadhyay , Basudeb Dasgupta , Amol Dighe , Mayank Narang

We study the discovery potential of axion-like particles (ALP), pseudo-scalars weakly coupled to Standard Model fields, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our focus is on ALPs coupled to the electromagnetic field, which would induce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-20 C. Baldenegro , S. Hassani , C. Royon , L. Schoeffel

X-ray observations of bright AGNs in or behind galaxy clusters offer unique capabilities to constrain axion-like particles (ALPs). Existing analysis technique rely on measurements of the global goodness-of-fit. We develop a new analysis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Joseph P. Conlon , Markus Rummel

Recent theoretical and experimental studies highlight the possibility of new fundamental particle physics beyond the Standard Model that can be probed by sub-eV energy experiments. The OSQAR photon regeneration experiment looks for "Light…

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 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

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

Our goal is to consider Axion-like particle (ALP) model to investigate the behaviour of space-time in the vicinity of the domain wall, induced by axion-like field. Here we present first-step approximation in our analysis and discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Maxim A. Krasnov , Maxim Yu. Khlopov , Oem Trivedi

Light axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple to two photons are allowed in a number of proposed extensions to the Standard Model of elementary particles. Of particular interest from a theoretical and observational standpoint is the energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 P. L. Slocum , O. K. Baker , J. L. Hirshfield , Y. Jiang , G. Kazakevitch , S. Kazakov , M. A. LaPointe , A. T. Malagon , A. J. Martin , S. Shchelkunov , A. Szymkowiak

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

The absence of definitive results for WIMP dark matter has sparked growing interest in alternative dark matter candidates, such as axions and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), which also provide insight into the strong CP problem. The Mitchell…

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) appear in several dark sector studies. They have gained increasing attention from the theoretical and experimental community. In this work, we propose the first search for ALPs to be conducted at the Brazilian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 L. Angel , P. Arias , C. O. Dib , A. S. de Jesus , S. Kuleshov , V. Kozhuharov , L. Lin , M. Lindner , F. S. Queiroz , R. C. Silva , Y. Villamizar

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 consider possible experimental tests of recent hypotheses suggesting that TeV photons survive the pair production interaction with extragalactic background light over cosmological distances by converting to axion-like particles (ALPs) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. T. Avignone , R. J. Creswick , S. Nussinov

Axion-like particles (ALPs) rotate the linear polarization of photons through the ALP-photon coupling and convert the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $E$-mode to the $B$-mode. We derive the relation between the ALP dynamics and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-12 Tomohiro Fujita , Yuto Minami , Kai Murai , Hiromasa Nakatsuka

The absence of conclusive signals in weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) searches has motivated increased interest in alternative dark matter candidates such as axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), which also provide a solution to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-07 S. Sahoo , S. Verma , M. Mirzakhani , N. Mishra , A. Thompson , S. Maludze , R. Mahapatra , M. Platt

Axion-like particles (ALPs), hypothetical pseudoscalar particles that couple to photons, are among the most actively investigated candidates for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Their interaction with gamma rays in the presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-15 Pooja Bhattacharjee , Christopher Eckner , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Gert Kluge , Giacomo D'Amico

We propose a fixed-target experiment to search for Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling to photons, which utilizes electron and positron beams available at KEK Linac. The sensitivity to ALP is evaluated for two shielding setups in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Akimasa Ishikawa , Yasuhito Sakaki , Yosuke Takubo

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