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We study cross correlations between line intensity and weak lensing maps to search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Radiative decay of eV-mass ALPs can contribute to cosmic background emissions at optical and infrared wavelengths. Line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Masato Shirasaki

Axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavor violating couplings can be probed in exotic muon and tau decays. The sensitivity of different experiments depends strongly on the ALP mass and its couplings to leptons and photons. For ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner , Marvin Schnubel , Andrea Thamm

We review the physics case for very weakly coupled ultralight particles beyond the Standard Model, in particular for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs): (i) the axionic solution of the strong CP problem and its embedding in well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-07 A. Ringwald

Axion-like particles (ALPs) arise in a variety of theoretical contexts and can, in general, mediate flavor violating interactions and parity non-conservation. We consider lepton flavor violating ALPs with GeV scale or larger masses which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-08 Hooman Davoudiasl , Roman Marcarelli , Ethan T. Neil

We propose an interferometry experiment for the detection of axion-like particles (ALPs). As in ordinary photon-regeneration (light shining through a wall) experiments, a laser beam traverses a region permeated by a magnetic field, where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-28 H. Tam , Q. Yang

We study axionlike particles (ALPs) in beam dump experiments, focusing on the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP, at CERN) experiment and the Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX, at JLab). Many existing projections for sensitivity to ALPs in beam dump…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 Samuel Patrone , Nikita Blinov , Ryan Plestid

We propose a new method to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) based on the gamma-rays produced concomitant with high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The existence of high-energy neutrinos implies production of gamma-rays in the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-07 Hendrik Vogel , Ranjan Laha , Manuel Meyer

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

We review searches for closed string axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) in IIB string flux compactifications. For natural values of the background fluxes and TeV scale gravitino mass, the moduli stabilisation mechanism of the LARGE…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Andreas Ringwald

Assuming the existence of an axion-like particle (ALP), beams of relativistic particles emit fluxes of quasi-real ALPs, analogous to the photon fluxes described by Weizs\"acker-Williams-type approximations. Consequently, ALP-ALP and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 Sergio Barbosa , Matheus Coelho , Sylvain Fichet , Gustavo Gil da Silveira , Magno Machado

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

We investigate the prospects for detecting axion-like particles (ALPs, dubbed as "a") via the decay $Z\rightarrow a f\bar{f}$ at future $Z$ factories. Considering the decay channels $a\rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $a\rightarrow b \bar{b}$ ,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Chong-Xing Yue , Shuo Yang , Han Wang , Nan Zhang

We present an analysis of axion-like particle (ALP) production in SUSY DFSZ-like model at the ILC and LHeC. We calculate the differential and total cross-sections in $\gamma^{*}e^{-}$ and $e^{-}e^{+}$ collisions including the effect of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-14 Bui Thi Ha Giang , Dang Van Soa

Axion-like particles (ALPs) have been studied in numerous experiments to search for their interactions, but most studies have focused on deriving bounds for the single coupling. However, in ultraviolet (UV) models, these couplings can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-21 Jia Liu , Yan Luo , Muyuan Song

Tau leptons can have lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) couplings to a muon or an electron and an Axion-Like Particle (ALP). ALPs are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global U(1) symmetries. LFV ALPs have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

The theoretical calculation for pseudo--scalars hadronic decays $K \to \pi a$ is reviewed. %with the Axion-Like-Particle escaping the detection, While one-loop penguin contributions are usually considered, tree-level processes have most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-11 Alfredo Walter Mario Guerrera , Stefano Rigolin

Heavy axion-like particles (ALPs), with masses up to a few 100 keV and coupled with photons can be efficiently produced in stellar plasmas, contributing to a significant energy-loss. This argument has been applied to helium burning stars in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Giuseppe Lucente , Oscar Straniero , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

The possibility of searching for long-lived axion-like particles (ALPs) decaying into photons is investigated in ultraperipheral $PbPb$ collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We propose a search strategy for low mass ALPs using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Pedro Nogarolli , Victor P. Gonçalves , Murilo S. Rangel

The nature of dark matter is an unsolved cosmological problem and axions are one of the weakly interacting cold dark matter candidates. Axions or ALPs (Axion-like particles) are pseudo-scalar bosons predicted by beyond-standard model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

The surprising discovery by MAGIC of an intense, rapidly varying emission in the energy range 70 - 400 GeV from the flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1222+216 represents a challenge for all interpretative scenarios. Indeed, in order to avoid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 F. Tavecchio , M. Roncadelli , G. Galanti , G. Bonnoli