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The hot interiors of massive stars in the later stages of their evolution provide an ideal place for the production of heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) with mass up to O(100 keV) range. We show that a fraction of these ALPs could stream…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 James H. Buckley , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Francesc Ferrer , Takuya Okawa

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear from spontaneous global symmetry breaking in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we find bounds on ALP ($a$) model parameters at the LHC from the ALP production associated with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Javad Ebadi , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

The 2-10 keV continuum of AGN is generally well represented by a single power law. However, at smaller energies the continuum displays an excess with respect to the extrapolation of this power law, called the ''soft X-ray excess''. Until…

Several ongoing and upcoming radio telescopes aim to detect either the global 21 cm signal or the 21 cm power spectrum. The extragalactic radio background, as detected by ARCADE-2 and LWA-1, suggests a strong radio background from cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Sudipta Sikder , Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana

The recent detection by LHAASO up to 18 TeV of the gamma ray burst GRB 221009A at redshift $z = 0.151$ challenges standard physics because of the strong absorption due to the extragalactic background light (EBL) for photons with energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Giorgio Galanti , Lara Nava , Marco Roncadelli , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Giacomo Bonnoli

The detection of exceptionally high-energy {\gamma}-photons (up to 18 TeV) from GRB 221009A by the LHAASO Collaboration challenges conventional physics. Photon-axion-like particle (ALP) oscillations have been proposed to explain this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Antonios Valamontes , Emmanuel Markoulakis , Ioannis Adamopoulos

Future gamma-ray experiments, such as the e-ASTROGAM and AMEGO telescopes, can detect the Hawking radiation of photons from primordial black holes (PBHs) if they make up a fraction or all of dark matter. PBHs can analogously also Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Kaustubh Agashe , Jae Hyeok Chang , Steven J. Clark , Bhaskar Dutta , Yuhsin Tsai , Tao Xu

The ARCADE2 and LWA1 experiments have claimed an excess over the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at low radio frequencies. If the cosmological high-redshift contribution to this radio background is between 0.1% and 22% of the CMB at 1.42…

The axion-like particle (ALP)-photon mixing in the magnetic field around $\gamma$-ray sources or along the line-of-sight could induce oscillation between photons and ALPs, which then causes irregularities in the $\gamma$-ray spectra. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Cun Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Shang Li , Neng-Hui Liao , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Zhong-Zhou Ren

In the standard cosmology, it is believed that there are two relatively weak and distinct band-limited absorption features, with the first absorption minima near 20 MHz ($z\sim70$) and the other minima at higher frequencies between 50-110…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-08 Mansi Dhuria , Viraj Karambelkar , Vikram Rentala , Priyanka Sarmah

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

The excess of electron recoil events seen by the XENON1T experiment has been interpreted as a potential signal of axion-like particles (ALPs), either produced in the Sun, or constituting part of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way. It has…

It has been recently claimed by two different groups that the spectral modulation observed in gamma rays from Galactic pulsars and supernova remnants can be due to conversion of photons into ultra-light axion-like-particles (ALPs) in…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can oscillate to photons and vice versa in electromagnetic fields. The photon-ALP oscillation provides an attractive solution to the apparent transparency of the Universe to TeV photons. The allowed parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Yun-Feng Liang , Cun Zhang , Zi-Qing Xia , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

The recent detection of the cosmic microwave background polarimeter experiment BICEP2 of tensor fluctuations in the B-mode power spectrum basically excludes all plausible axion models where its decay constant is above $10^{13}$ GeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 A. G. Dias , A. C. B. Machado , C. C. Nishi , A. Ringwald , P. Vaudrevange

The presence of an extra radio background besides the cosmic microwave background has important implications for the observation of the 21-cm signal during the cosmic Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and epoch of Reionization. The strong absorption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Zhihe Zhang , Bin Yue , Yidong Xu , Yin-Zhe Ma , Xuelei Chen , Maoyuan Liu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a feasible explanation for the observed lower TeV opacity of the Universe. If the anomaly TeV transparency is caused by ALPs, then the fluxes of distant extragalactic sources will be enhanced at photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Yun-Feng Liang , Xing-Fu Zhang , Ji-Gui Cheng , Hou-Dun Zeng , Yi-Zhong Fan , En-Wei Liang

We compute the isotropic radiation background due to Hawking emission from primordial black holes (PBHs), and examine if this background is a viable option in explaining the excess radiowave background observed by the ARCADE2 and LWA1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 Shikhar Mittal , Girish Kulkarni

The detection of very high-energy neutrinos by IceCube experiment supports the existence of a comparable gamma-ray counterpart from the same cosmic accelerators. Under the likely assumption that the sources of these particles are of…

Very-high energy photons emitted by distant cosmic sources are absorbed on the extragalactic background light (EBL) during their propagation. This effect can be characterized in terms of a photon transfer function at Earth. The presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino