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In this paper we study axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavour-violating (LFV) couplings in the mass regime above the muon threshold, $m_a>m_\mu$, where the strong bound from the exotic muon decay $\mu\to ea$ no longer apply and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Marco Ardu , Lorenzo Calibbi , Marco Fedele , Federico Mescia

We investigate the photon-axionlike particle (ALP) oscillation effects on TeV gamma-ray spectral irregularities from the uncertain redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) VER J0521+211. The gamma-ray spectra are measured by Fermi-LAT and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Hai-Jun Li , Wei Chao

Limits on spin-0 axion-like-particles (ALPs) coupling to photons are reinterpreted as constraints on massive spin-2 graviton-like-particles (GLPs) with universal coupling $\alpha_\text{G}/M_\text{P}$ (where $M_\text{P}$ is the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Jordan Gué , David d'Enterria

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated examples of light, weakly coupled particles in theories beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we study long-lived ALPs coupled exclusively to leptons in the mass range between $2 m_e$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Yohei Ema , Patrick J. Fox , Matheus Hostert , Tony Menzo , Maxim Pospelov , Anupam Ray , Jure Zupan

A fraction of AGN producing VHE gamma-rays are located in galaxy clusters. The magnetic field present in the intra-cluster medium would lead to conversions of VHE photons into axion-like particles (ALPs), which are a generic prediction of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Dieter Horns , Luca Maccione , Manuel Meyer , Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino , Marco Roncadelli

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are light, neutral, pseudo-scalar bosons predicted by several extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics -- such as the String Theory -- and are supposed to interact primarily only with two photons. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-22 Giorgio Galanti

Photon-axion-like particle (ALP) oscillations result in the survival of gamma rays from distant sources above TeV energies. Studies of events observed by CAST, Fermi-LAT, and IACT have constrained the ALP parameters. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Bhanu Prakash Pant , Sunanda , Reetanjali Moharana , Sarathykanan S

Motivated by the Xenon1T excess in electron-recoil measurements, we investigate the prospects of probing axion-like particles (ALP) in lepton flavor violation experiments. In particular, we identify such ALP as a pseudo-Goldstone from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Chengcheng Han , M. L. López-Ibáñez , Aurora Melis , Óscar Vives , Jin Min Yang

Oscillations from high energy photons into light pseudoscalar particles in an external magnetic field are expected to occur in some extensions of the standard model. It is usually assumed that those axionlike particles (ALPs) could produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-13 Denis Wouters , Pierre Brun

Experimental refinements and technical innovations in the field of extensive air shower telescopes have enabled measurements of Galactic cosmic-ray interactions in the sub-PeV range, providing new avenues for the search for new physics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-19 Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore

We assess the status of past and future experiments on lepton flavor violating (LFV) muon and tau decays into a light, invisible, axion-like particle (ALP), $a$. We propose a new experimental setup for MEG II, the MEGII-fwd, with a forward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-18 Lorenzo Calibbi , Diego Redigolo , Robert Ziegler , Jure Zupan

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

In this work, prospects to probe an overlooked facet of axion-like particles (ALPs) -- their potential couplings to sterile neutrinos -- are presented. We found that mono-photon searches have the potential to constrain ALP couplings to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-18 Alexandre Alves , Alex G. Dias , Diego D. Lopes

Axion-like particles (ALPs) emerge in many extensions of the Standard Model as pseudo-Goldstone bosons of a spontaneously broken global symmetry. Understanding their phenomenology in high-energy collisions is crucial for optimizing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-04 Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia , Felix Kahlhoefer , Maksym Ovchynnikov , Andrii Zaporozhchenko

{\it Fermi} satellite has detected extra spectral components in GeV energy range in several GRBs. Those components have power-law shapes, which may contribute to also X-ray band. The limited photon statistics make it difficult to determine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-02 Katsuaki Asano , Peter Mészáros , Kohta Murase , Susumu Inoue , Toshio Terasawa

Contributions of a spin 0 axion-like particle (ALP) to lepton dipole moments, g-2 and EDMs, are examined. Barr-Zee and light-by-light loop effects from a light pseudoscalar ALP are found to be capable of resolving the long-standing muon g-2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 W. J. Marciano , A. Masiero , P. Paradisi , M. Passera

The axion-like particles (ALPs) are very good candidates of the cosmological dark matter, which can exist in many extensions of the standard model (SM). The mass range of the ALPs as the dark matter can extend from a sub-eV scale to almost…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Guo-yuan Huang , Newton Nath

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are new particles that extend beyond the standard model (SM) and are highly motivated. When considering ALPs within an effective field theory framework, their couplings with SM particles can be studied…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-04 Chih-Ting Lu , Xiaoyi Luo , Xinqi Wei

We argue that a large region of so far unconstrained parameter space for axion-like particles (ALPs), where their couplings to the Standard Model are of order $(0.01\!-\!1)\,\mbox{TeV}^{-1}$, can be explored by searches for the exotic Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are well-motivated candidates for dark matter and potential mediators to the dark sector. We present a search for ALPs coupled to photons, based on a reinterpretation of COMPASS data. Using the 2009 dataset…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Mehran Dehpour