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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

The first FASER search for a light, long-lived particle decaying into a pair of photons is reported. The search uses LHC proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13.6~\text{TeV}$ collected in 2022 and 2023, corresponding to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-18 FASER collaboration , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Xiaocong Ai , John Anders , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Jeremy Atkinson , Florian U. Bernlochner , Emma Bianchi , Tobias Boeckh , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Angela Burger , Franck Cadoux , Roberto Cardella , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Xin Chen , Eunhyung Cho , Dhruv Chouhan , Andrea Coccaro , Stephane Débieux , Monica D'Onofrio , Ansh Desai , Sergey Dmitrievsky , Radu Dobre , Sinead Eley , Yannick Favre , Deion Fellers , Jonathan L. Feng , Carlo Alberto Fenoglio , Didier Ferrere , Max Fieg , Wissal Filali , Elena Firu , Edward Galantay , Ali Garabaglu , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Yuri Gornushkin , Carl Gwilliam , Daiki Hayakawa , Michael Holzbock , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Luca Iodice , Sune Jakobsen , Hans Joos , Enrique Kajomovitz , Hiroaki Kawahara , Alex Keyken , Felix Kling , Daniela Köck , Pantelis Kontaxakis , Umut Kose , Rafaella Kotitsa , Susanne Kuehn , Thanushan Kugathasan , Lorne Levinson , Ke Li , Jinfeng Liu , Yi Liu , Margaret S. Lutz , Jack MacDonald , Chiara Magliocca , Toni Mäkelä , Lawson McCoy , Josh McFayden , Andrea Pizarro Medina , Matteo Milanesio , Théo Moretti , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Laurie Nevay , Ken Ohashi , Hidetoshi Otono , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Brian Petersen , Titi Preda , Markus Prim , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Hiroki Rokujo , André Rubbia , Jorge Sabater-Iglesias , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Anna Sfyrla , Davide Sgalaberna , Mansoora Shamim , Savannah Shively , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Ondrej Theiner , Eric Torrence , Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez , Svetlana Vasina , Benedikt Vormwald , Di Wang , Yuxiao Wang , Eli Welch , Yue Xu , Samuel Zahorec , Stefano Zambito , Shunliang Zhang

We demonstrate that the scatter in the luminosity relations of astrophysical objects can be used to search for axion-like-particles (ALPs). This analysis is applied to observations of active galactic nuclei, where we find evidence strongly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-30 Clare Burrage , Anne-Christine Davis , Douglas J. Shaw

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

Axionlike particles (ALPs) can be produced in the Sun, and are considered viable candidates for the cosmological dark matter (DM). It can decay into two photons or interact with matter. We identify new inelastic channels of inverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 C. -P. Wu , C. -P. Liu , Greeshma C. , L. Singh , J. -W. Chen , H. -C. Chi , M. K. Pandey , H. T. Wong

The axion-like particle (ALP) may induce flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) when their Peccei-Quinn charges are not generation universal. The search for flavor-violating ALP couplings with a bottom quark so far focused on FCNC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-29 Tong Li , Zhuoni Qian , Michael A. Schmidt , Man Yuan

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a compelling avenue for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model. In astrophysical magnetized plasmas an ALP-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma}$ induces energy-dependent oscillations in the photon survival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Yu Zhou , Jiejia Liu , Volodymyr Takhistov , Kazuhisa Mitsuda

Axion-like particles (ALPs) arise from well-motivated extensions to the Standard Model and could account for dark matter. ALP dark matter would manifest as a field oscillating at an (as of yet) unknown frequency. The frequency depends…

Galactic dark matter may consist of axionlike particles (ALPs) that can be described as an "ultralight bosonic field" oscillating at the ALP Compton frequency. The ALP field can be searched for using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), where…

The axion-like particle (ALP) is a well motivated new particle candidate of beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we propose to probe the ALP through the photon fusion scattering at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Yandong Liu , Bin Yan

The dark matter puzzle is one of the most important open problems in modern physics. The ultra-light axion is a well-motivated dark matter candidate, conceived to resolve the strong-CP problem of quantum chromodynamics. Numerous precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-24 Alexander O. Sushkov

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

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

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

Reactor neutrino experiments provide a rich environment for the study of axionlike particles (ALPs). Using the intense photon flux produced in the nuclear reactor core, these experiments have the potential to probe ALPs with masses below 10…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-05 D. Aristizabal Sierra , V. De Romeri , L. J. Flores , D. K. Papoulias

Burrage, Davis, and Shaw recently suggested exploiting the correlations between high and low energy luminosities of astrophysical objects to probe possible mixing between photons and axion-like particles (ALP) in magnetic field regions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Guido Walter Pettinari , Robert Crittenden

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…

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 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