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We obtain stronger laboratory constraints on the coupling constants of axion-like particles to nucleons from measurements of the normal and lateral Casimir forces between sinusoidally corrugated surfaces of a sphere and a plate. For this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 V. B. Bezerra , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , C. Romero

The cumulative emission of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) from all past core-collapse supernovae (SNe) would lead to a diffuse flux with energies ${\mathcal O}(50)$ MeV. We use this to constrain ALPs featuring couplings to photons and to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-03 Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Joerg Jaeckel , Alessandro Mirizzi

We study how constraints on the abundance of ultralight axions (ULAs) from cosmic microwave background (CMB) data depend on their nonlinear modelling. We focus on the axion mass range $10^{-25} \leq m/\rm{eV} \leq 10^{-23}$, where the axion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Lauren Gaughan , Anne M. Green , Adam Moss

We investigate solar X-ray observations as a probe of axions and axion-like particles. These particles can be produced in the interior of the Sun via the conversion of thermal photons, as well as through processes involving axion-electron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Tiziano Zanzarella , Francisco R. Candón , Maurizio Giannotti , Marco Regis , Jaime Ruz , Marco Taoso , Elisa Todarello , Julia K. Vogel

The observation of cosmic sub-PeV gamma-rays from the Crab Nebula opens up the possibility of testing cosmic ray photon transparency at the multi-hundred TeV scale. Assuming no deviation from a source gamma-ray emission due to accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Xiao-Jun Bi , Yu Gao , Junguang Guo , Nick Houston , Tianjun Li , Fangzhou Xu , Xin Zhang

Observations of the cosmological large-scale structure provide well-established neutrino mass limits. We extend this argument to thermal relic axions. We calculate the axion thermal freeze-out temperature and thus their cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Hannestad , A. Mirizzi , G. Raffelt

We present a systematic study of QCD axion production in environments with finite baryon density and temperature, implying significant changes to axion phenomenology. Within heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory, we derive the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-03 Konstantin Springmann , Michael Stadlbauer , Stefan Stelzl , Andreas Weiler

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 update our previous constraints on two-component hot dark matter (axions and neutrinos), including the recent WMAP 5-year data release. Marginalising over sum m_nu provides m_a < 1.02 eV (95% C.L.) for the axion mass. In the absence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Steen Hannestad , Alessandro Mirizzi , Georg G. Raffelt , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

"Dark Photons", light new vector particles V kinetically mixed with the photon, are a frequently considered extension of the Standard Model. For masses below 10 keV they are emitted from the solar interior. In the limit of small mass m_V…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-26 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

The natural environment of the Earth can act as a sensitive detector for dark matter in ultralight axions. When axions with masses between $1\times10^{-15}\,{\rm eV}$ and $1\times10^{-13}\,{\rm eV}$ pass through the Earth, they interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Yoshiaki Himemoto

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

We report on the first results of the Noble and Alkali Spin Detectors for Ultralight Coherent darK matter (NASDUCK) collaboration. We search for the interactions of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with atomic spins using an earth-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-08 Itay M. Bloch , Gil Ronen , Roy Shaham , Ori Katz , Tomer Volansky , Or Katz

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) coupled with electrons would be produced in a Supernova (SN) via electron-proton bremsstrahlung and electron-positron fusion. We evaluate the ALP emissivity from these processes by taking into account the ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-16 Giuseppe Lucente , Pierluca Carenza

We derive updated cosmological bounds on light axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to leptons or photons, using a full phase-space treatment of their production from the primordial thermal plasma. The ALP phase-space distribution, obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Nicola Barbieri , Luca Caloni , Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Luca Visinelli

Protoneutron stars, highly compact objects formed in the core of exploding supernovae (SNe), are powerful sources of axion-like particles (ALPs). In the SN core, ALPs are dominantly produced via nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung and pion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-10 Francisco R. Candón , Sougata Ganguly , Maurizio Giannotti , Tanmoy Kumar , Alessandro Lella , Federico Mescia

I present the first constraints on QCD axion dark matter using measurements from the James Webb Space Telescope. By utilizing publicly available MIRI and NIRSpec blank-sky observations, originally collected for sky subtraction purposes, I…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-18 Elena Pinetti

Physics beyond the Standard Model predicts the possible existence of new particles that can be searched at the low energy frontier in the sub-eV range. The OSQAR photon regeneration experiment looks for "Light Shining through a Wall" from…

Axion dark matter can be converted into photons in the magnetospheres of neutron stars leading to a spectral line centred on the Compton wavelength of the axion. Due to the rotation of the star and the plasma effects in the magnetosphere…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 R. A. Battye , M. J. Keith , J. I. McDonald , S. Srinivasan , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede

We revisit a singlet Majoron model in which neutrino masses arise from the spontaneous violation of lepton number. If the Majoron obtains a mass of order MeV, it can play the role of dark matter. We discuss constraints on the couplings of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Tim Brune , Heinrich Päs