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Axion or axion-like particle (ALP) has been usually considered as a CP-odd Nambu-Goldstone boson (NGB) from the spontaneous breakdown of a global U(1) symmetry. In this paper, we point out that the NGB behaves as a CP-even particle coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Kodai Sakurai , Wen Yin

We perform a feasibility study to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) using vector boson fusion (VBF) processes at the LHC. We work in an effective field theory framework with cutoff scale $\Lambda$ and ALP mass $m_{a}$, and assume that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Andrés Flórez , Alfredo Gurrola , Will Johns , Paul Sheldon , Elijah Sheridan , Kuver Sinha , Brandon Soubasis

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

The current status and future prospects of searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) at colliders, mostly focused on the CERN LHC, are summarized. Constraints on ALPs with masses above a few GeV that couple to photons, as well as to Z or…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-25 David d'Enterria

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

Experimental searches for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) which couple to the electroweak bosons span over a wide range of ALP masses, from MeV searches at beam-dump experiments, to TeV searches at the LHC. Here we examine an interesting range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-27 Noah Steinberg

Axions or more generally axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo-scalar particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM) and considered as viable candidates for dark matter (DM) in the universe. If they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Ahmed Ayad , Geoff Beck

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are a generic, calculable, and well motivated extension of the Standard Model with far reaching phenomenology. ALPs that couple only to hypercharge represent one subset of such models, coupling the ALP to both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Noah Steinberg , James D. Wells

We propose a new collider probe for axion-like particles (ALPs), and more generally for pseudo-Goldstone bosons: non-resonant searches which take advantage of the derivative nature of their interactions with Standard Model particles. ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 M. B. Gavela , J. M. No , V. Sanz , J. F. de Trocóniz

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

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a broad class of pseudo-scalar bosons that generically arise from broken symmetries in extensions of the standard model. In many scenarios, ALPs can mix with photons in regions with high magnetic fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 Sunniva Jacobsen , Tim Linden , Katherine Freese

Searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) are motivated by the strong CP problem in particle physics and by unexplained dark matter in astrophysics. In this letter, we discuss novel ALP searches using monoenergetic nuclear de-excitation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-29 Loyd Waites , Adrian Thompson , Adriana Bungau , Janet M. Conrad , Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Doojin Kim , Michael Shaevitz , Joshua Spitz

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

Axionlike particles (ALPs) are hypothetical light (sub-eV) bosons predicted in some extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In astrophysical environments comprising high-energy gamma rays and turbulent magnetic fields, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-19 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , A. Abramowski , F. Acero , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , A. G. Akhperjanian , E. Angüner , G. Anton , S. Balenderan , A. Balzer , A. Barnacka , Y. Becherini , J. Becker Tjus , K. Bernlöhr , E. Birsin , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , P. Bordas , J. Brucker , F. Brun , P. Brun , T. Bulik , S. Carrigan , S. Casanova , M. Cerruti , P. M. Chadwick , R. Chalme-Calvet , R. C. G. Chaves , A. Cheesebrough , M. Chrétien , S. Colafrancesco , G. Cologna , J. Conrad , C. Couturier , M. Dalton , M. K. Daniel , I. D. Davids , B. Degrange , C. Deil , P. deWilt , H. J. Dickinson , A. Djannati-Ataï , W. Domainko , L. O'C. Drury , G. Dubus , K. Dutson , J. Dyks , M. Dyrda , T. Edwards K. Egberts , P. Eger , P. Espigat , C. Farnier , S. Fegan , F. Feinstein , M. V. Fernandes , D. Fernandez , A. Fiasson , G. Fontaine , A. Förster , M. Füssling , M. Gajdus , Y. A. Gallant , T. Garrigoux , H. Gast , B. Giebels , J. F. Glicenstein , D. Göring , M. -H. Grondin , M. Grudzińska , S. Häffner , J. D. Hague , J. Hahn , J. Harris , G. Heinzelmann , G. Henri , G. Hermann , O. Hervet , A. Hillert , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , P. Hofverberg , M. Holler , D. Horns , A. Jacholkowska , C. Jahn , M. Jamrozy , M. Janiak , F. Jankowsky , I. Jung , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzyński , U. Katz , S. Kaufmann , B. Khélifi , M. Kieffer , S. Klepser , D. Klochkov , W. Kluźniak , T. Kneiske , D. Kolitzus , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , S. Krakau , F. Krayzel , P. P. Krüger , H. Laffon , G. Lamanna , J. Lefaucheur , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , D. Lennarz , T. Lohse , A. Lopatin , C. -C. Lu , V. Marandon , A. Marcowith , R. Marx , G. Maurin , N. Maxted , M. Mayer , T. J. L. McComb , M. C. Medina , J. Méhault , U. Menzler , M. Meyer , R. Moderski , M. Mohamed , E. Moulin , T. Murach , C. L. Naumann , M. de Naurois , D. Nedbal , J. Niemiec , S. J. Nolan , L. Oakes , S. Ohm , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , B. Opitz , M. Ostrowski , I. Oya , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , M. Paz Arribas , N. W. Pekeur , G. Pelletier , J. Perez , P. -O. Petrucci , B. Peyaud , S. Pita , H. Poon , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , M. Raue , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , R. de los Reyes , F. Rieger , L. Rob , S. Rosier-Lees , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , C. B. Rulten , V. Sahakian , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , R. Schlickeiser , F. Schüssler , A. Schulz , U. Schwanke , S. Schwarzburg , S. Schwemmer , H. Sol , G. Spengler , F. Spies , L. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , F. Stinzing , K. Stycz , I. Sushch , A. Szostek , J. -P. Tavernet , R. Terrier , M. Tluczykont , C. Trichard , K. Valerius , C. van Eldik , G. Vasileiadis , C. Venter , A. Viana , P. Vincent , H. J. Völk , F. Volpe , M. Vorster , S. J. Wagner , P. Wagner , M. Ward , M. Weidinger , Q. Weitzel , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , P. Willmann , A. Wörnlein , D. Wouters , M. Zacharias , A. Zajczyk , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. -S. Zechlin

X-ray telescopes are an exceptional tool for searching for new fundamental physics. In particular, X-ray observations have already placed world-leading bounds on the interaction between photons and axion-like particles (ALPs). ALPs are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Francesca Day , Sven Krippendorf

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

We investigate the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in stellar cores, where they interact with electromagnetic fields and electrons, with typical masses between $\mathcal O(0.1)$ and $\mathcal O(10)$ keV. These low-energy ALPs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-13 Yu-Xuan Chen , Lei Lei , Zi-Qing Xia , Ziwei Wang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

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