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The pseudoscalar-photon mixing in presence of large scale magnetic field induces polarization in light from distant cosmological sources. We study the effect of these pseudoscalars or axion like particles (ALPs) on Cosmic Microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-04 Prabhakar Tiwari

Axion-like particles (ALPs), hypothetical extensions of the Standard Model, can convert into photons in an external magnetic field. Two recent studies~\cite{Todarello:2023ptf, Ruz:2024gkl} explored the phenomenology of ALP-photon conversion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Elisa Todarello

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

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

The growing interest in axion-like particles (ALPs) stems from the fact that they provide successful theoretical explanations of physics phenomena, from the anomaly of the CP-symmetry conservation in strong interactions to the observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Ivana Batković , Alessandro De Angelis , Michele Doro , Marina Manganaro

The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle which suppresses CP-violating effects in strong interactions and also happens to be an excellent dark matter candidate. Axions constituting the dark matter halo of our galaxy may be detected by…

Cosmic birefringence, the observed rotation of the polarization plane of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), serves as a compelling probe for parity-violating physics beyond the Standard Model. This study explores the potential of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 Dongdong Zhang , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Ippei Obata , Toshiya Namikawa

Dark Matter (DM) may be comprised of axion-like particles (ALPs) with couplings to photons and the standard model fermions. In this paper we study photon signals arising from cosmic ray (CR) electron scattering on background ALPs. For a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Alejandro Rodriguez , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Natalia Tapia Arellano

Cosmic birefringence, characterized by the observed rotation of the polarization plane of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, serves as a critical probe for testing theories beyond the standard cosmological scenario. As a major…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Jialiang Shao , Ippei Obata , Dongdong Zhang

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

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

A hypothetical particle known as the axion holds the potential to resolve both the cosmic dark matter riddle and particle physics' long-standing, strong CP dilemma. An unusually strong 21-cm absorption feature associated with the initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 C. R. Das

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are leading candidates to explain the dark matter in the universe. Their production via the misalignment mechanism has been extensively studied for cosine potentials characteristic of pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-30 Aleksandr Chatrchyan , Cem Eröncel , Matthias Koschnitzke , Géraldine Servant

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are well-motivated candidates for dark matter and potential mediators to the dark sector. We present a search for ALPs coupled to photons, based on a reinterpretation of COMPASS data. Using the 2009 dataset…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Mehran Dehpour

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) places strong constraints on models of dark matter (DM) that deviate from standard cold DM (CDM), and on initial conditions beyond the scalar adiabatic mode. Here, the full \textit{Planck} data set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Renée Hlozek , David J. E. Marsh , Daniel Grin

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can induce localised oscillatory modulations in the spectra of photon sources passing through astrophysical magnetic fields. Ultra-deep Chandra observations of the Perseus cluster contain over $5 \times 10^5$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-04 Marcus Berg , Joseph P. Conlon , Francesca Day , Nicholas Jennings , Sven Krippendorf , Andrew J. Powell , Markus Rummel

We present constraints on the nature of axions and axionlike particles (ALPs) by analyzing gamma--ray data from neutron stars using the Fermi Large Area Telescope. In addition to axions solving the strong CP problem of particle physics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 Bijan Berenji , Jennifer Gaskins , Manuel Meyer

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) are one promising kind of dark matter candidate particles that are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields. The oscillations between photons and ALPs travelling in the magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Jia Bu , Ya-Ping Li

We provide a fresh look at the cosmological constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple predominantly to photons, focusing on lifetimes $\tau_{a} \lesssim 10^{4}\, {\rm s}$ and masses $m_a\lesssim 10\,{\rm GeV}$. We consider Big…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Miguel Escudero , Clara Garcia-Perez , Maksym Ovchynnikov