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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 study the dynamics of axions at first-order phase transitions in non-Abelian gauge theories. When the duration of the phase transition is short compared to the timescale of the axion oscillations, the axion dynamics is similar to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Junseok Lee , Kai Murai , Fuminobu Takahashi , Wen Yin

Axion-like particles can couple to Standard Model gluons, electroweak gauge bosons, and massive fermions. A future multi-TeV muon collider provides a favorable environment to probe axion-like particles through multiple production channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 So Chigusa , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Yufei Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can be naturally lighter than the electroweak scale. We consider an ALP that couples to the Standard Model Higgs to achieve the strong first-order electroweak phase transition. We discuss the two-field dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 Keisuke Harigaya , Isaac R. Wang

Radiative quarkonia decays offer an ideal setting for probing Axion-Like Particle (ALP) interactions. This paper provides a comprehensive review of ALP production mechanisms through the $e^+ e^- \to \gamma\,a$ process at B- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-21 Luca Di Luzio , Alfredo Walter Mario Guerrera , Xavier Ponce Díaz , Stefano Rigolin

We investigate how the photon polarization is affected by the interaction with axion-like particles (ALPs) in the rotating magnetic field of a neutron star (NS). Using quantum Boltzmann equations the study demonstrates that the periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei , Sabino Matarrese , Roberto Turolla

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

Axion-like-particles are a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model that can mediate interactions between the dark matter and ordinary matter. Here we consider an axion portal between the two sectors, where the axion couples to dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Patrick J. Fitzpatrick , Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Rotem Ovadia , Yotam Soreq

During a cosmological first-order phase transition, particles of the plasma crossing the bubble walls can radiate a gauge boson. The resulting pressure cannot be computed perturbatively for large coupling constant and/or large supercooling.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-15 Yann Gouttenoire , Ryusuke Jinno , Filippo Sala

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons inter-convert in the presence of a magnetic field. At keV energies in the environment of galaxy clusters, the conversion probability can become unsuppressed for light ALPs. Conversion of thermal X-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Joseph P. Conlon , M. C. David Marsh , Andrew J. Powell

Photons couple to Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) or more generally to any pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson in the presence of an external electromagnetic field. Mixing between photons and ALPs in the strong magnetic field of a Gamma-Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-18 Olga Mena , Soebur Razzaque , F. Villaescusa-Navarro

We consider the search for axion-like particles (ALPs) by using time series data of the polarization angle of the light. If the condensation of an ALP plays the role of dark matter, the polarization plane of the light oscillates as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 So Chigusa , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

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

We propose the possibility of discovering a light pseudoscalar particle $a$, axion-like particle (ALP), interacting mainly with quarks using the electron and photon scattering reaction chain $e + Z \rightarrow e + \gamma + Z$; $\gamma + Z…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model (SM) that appear in many new physics scenarios, with masses spanning a broad range. In this work, we systematically study the production and detection prospects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Shou-shan Bao , Yang Ma , Yongcheng Wu , Keping Xie , Hong Zhang

In this work, we extend the standard pre-inflationary misalignment mechanism for axion-like particles (ALPs) by introducing a pre-oscillatory phase with constant equation of state $\omega_\phi\in[-1,1]$, generated by a tracking potential.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 José María Pérez-Poyatos

Assuming that dark matter is an ultralight pseudoscalar particle which couples to electromagnetism like an axion (an ALP), we demonstrate that the coupling of the cosmological magnetic field produced by the ALP field oscillations to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-26 Ashu Kushwaha , Robert Brandenberger

We show that an axionlike particle (ALP) naturally implements spontaneous electroweak baryogenesis through a cosmic evolution strongly tied to the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) if it feebly couples to the Higgs field while giving a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-14 Sang Hui Im , Kwang Sik Jeong , Yeseong Lee

We revisit the study of light interacting with QCD axion domain walls from the perspective of the non-linear axion coupling to photons, $g(a) F \tilde F$, which encodes the effects related to the breaking of the axion shift symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Simone Blasi

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