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Motivated by the more and more abundant experimental data, we revisit the couplings of axion-like particle (ALP) to electroweak gauge bosons across the ALP mass range from MeV to 100 GeV. The current and future experimental limits on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Jin Sun , Zhi-Peng Xing , Seokhoon Yun

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) belong to a well motivated class of particles which are part of a more complete UV theory. In this work, we initiate and present the inclusion of such ALPs or the conventional axions in the Heavy Hadron Chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Namit Mahajan

In the beyond Standard Model (BSM) scenarios, the possibility of neutrinos decaying into a lighter state is one of the prime quests for the new-generation neutrino experiments. The observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-08 Bhanu Prakash Pant

The recent measurement of the branching ratio of $B^+ \to K^+ + \mathrm{inv}$ (where "inv" denotes invisible states) by the Belle~II collaboration is enhanced relative to the standard model expectation by 2.7$\sigma$. An older puzzle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya , Alakabha Datta , Girish Kumar , Danny Marfatia

One kind of particularly interesting pseudoscalar particles, called axion-like particles (ALPs), have rich physical phenomenology at high- and low-energy collider experiments. After discussing most of single production channels of ALP at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-25 Chong-Xing Yue , Hua-Ying Zhang , Han Wang

Axion-Like-Particles are among the most economical and well motivated extensions of the Standard Model. In this work ALP production from hadronic and leptonic meson decays are studied. The hadronization part of these decay amplitudes have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-19 Alfredo Walter Mario Guerrera , Stefano Rigolin

The axion is a compelling hypothetical particle that could account for the dark matter in our universe, while simultaneously explaining why quark interactions within the neutron do not appear to give rise to an electric dipole moment. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-11 Andrew Engel , Thomas Braine , Christian Boutan

Supernovae offer a unique hot and dense environment to probe new physics beyond the Standard Model. We investigate supernova cooling constraints on lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Yonglin Li , Zuowei Liu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are promising dark matter candidates. Their signals in direct detection experiments arise from the well-known inverse Primakoff effect or the inverse Compton scattering of the ALPs with the electron. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-17 Wei Chao , Jing-Jing Feng , Ming-Jie Jin

We review topics in searches for axion-like-particles (ALPs), covering material that is complementary to other recent reviews. The first half of our review covers ALPs in the extreme environments of neutron star cores, the magnetospheres of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Jean-François Fortin , Huai-Ke Guo , Steven P. Harris , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha , Chen Sun

The axion is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson. It appears after the spontaneous breaking of the Peccei-Quinn symmetry, which was proposed to solve the strong-CP problem. Other pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons, postulated in some extensions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-12 Davide Cadamuro

We revisit the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to electrons at tree-level in a relativistic plasma. We explicitly demonstrate the equivalence between pseudoscalar and derivative couplings, incorporate previously neglected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Tetyana Pitik , Edoardo Vitagliano

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang

The optical dump at the LUXE experiment has the potential to create a large flux of $\mathcal{O}({\rm GeV})$ photons that can be used to look for new physics when directed at a solid material dump. The LUXE-NPOD extension of LUXE, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Noam Ness , Barry Cimring

We investigate the prospects for detecting axion-like particles (ALPs, dubbed as "a") via the decay $Z\rightarrow a f\bar{f}$ at future $Z$ factories. Considering the decay channels $a\rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $a\rightarrow b \bar{b}$ ,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Chong-Xing Yue , Shuo Yang , Han Wang , Nan Zhang

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

Two-body decays like $K \to \pi a$ rank among the most constraining collider probes for new, low-mass, feebly interacting pseudoscalar particles $a$. We explore an alternative class of kaon decay modes, specifically three-body decays to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Mael Cavan-Piton , Diego Guadagnoli , Axel Iohner , Diego Martinez Santos , Ludovico Vittorio

In addition to the next generation of beam-based neutrino experiments and their associated detectors, a number of intense, low-energy neutrino production sources from decays at rest will be in operation. In this work, we explore the physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Roni Harnik , Kevin J. Kelly , Pedro A. N. Machado

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) and axion-like particles (ALPs) are both considered well-motivated candidates for beyond the standard model (BSM) physics. If ALPs with sizable couplings to gluons exist, they will be abundantly produced at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Rebeca Beltrán , Chandan Hati , Martin Hirsch , Ana Martín-Galán

The existence of an axion-like particle (ALP) would induce anomalous scattering of light by light. This process can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider in central exclusive production of photon pairs in proton-proton collisions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Cristian Baldenegro , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Christophe Royon