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We examine the low-energy signatures of axion-like particles (ALPs) in lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes. By using a dimension-5 effective Lagrangian, we compute the most general ALP contributions to LFV decays of leptons and mesons.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-22 Claudia Cornella , Paride Paradisi , Olcyr Sumensari

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

We study the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in association with electrons and neutrinos in the muon decay process. For this purpose, we compute the decay width of the muon to a four-body channel using a $d=7$ effective operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-12 Ankita Budhraja , Samadrita Mukherjee , Sahana Narasimha

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated low-energy relics of high-energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). We investigate the phenomenology of an ALP with flavor-changing couplings, and present a comprehensive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner , Marvin Schnubel , Andrea Thamm

Core-collapse supernovae are a useful laboratory to probe the nature of exotic particles. If axionlike particles (ALPs) are produced in supernovae, they can affect the transfer of energy and leave traces in observational signatures. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Kanji Mori , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Shunsaku Horiuchi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model (SM) that appear in many new physics scenarios, with masses spanning a broad range. In this work, we systematically study the production and detection prospects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Shou-shan Bao , Yang Ma , Yongcheng Wu , Keping Xie , Hong Zhang

Heavy axion-like particles (ALPs), with masses $m_a \gtrsim 100$ keV, coupled with photons, would be copiously produced in a supernova (SN) core via Primakoff process and photon coalescence. Using a state-of-the-art SN model, we revisit the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-07 Giuseppe Lucente , Pierluca Carenza , Tobias Fischer , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

We revisit the theory and constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) interacting with leptons. We clarify some subtleties in the constraints on ALP parameter space and find several new opportunities for ALP detection. We identify a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-23 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Jeff A. Dror , Stefania Gori

We study a lepton flavor violating $\mu N \to \tau X$ reaction in deep inelastic scattering region in supersymmetric models. The contribution from the Higgs boson mediation could be important for this reaction. For that case, the cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shinya Kanemura , Yoshitaka Kuno , Masahiro Kuze , Toshihiko Ota

We explore the possibility of probing flavor violations in the charged-lepton sector by means of high-luminosity lepton-photon and electron-muon collisions, by inverting initial and final states in a variety of decay channels presently used…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-30 Emidio Gabrielli , Barbara Mele , Roberto Onofrio

Even tiny lepton flavor violation (LFV) due to some New Physics is able to alter the conditions inside a collapsing supernova core and probably to facilitate the explosion. LFV emerges naturally in a See-Saw type II model of neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Oleg Lychkovskiy , Mikhail Vysotsky

Core-collapse supernovae provide natural laboratories for the production of new light particles. In particular, axion-like particles (ALPs) can be constrained via SN1987A cooling arguments. However, significant astrophysical and nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Ana Luisa Foguel , Eduardo S. Fraga

Using recent supernova models, I revisit the Supernova 1987a constraints on scalar/pseudoscalar Axion-Like-Particles (ALPs). On the basis of the neutrino detections, the luminosity of ALPs must be $\lesssim 5\times10^{52} \,\mathrm{erg}/s$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-31 Jun Seok Lee

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

Pseudo-scalar particles, often referred to as axion-like-particles (ALPs), arise in a variety of theoretical contexts. The phenomenology of such states is typically studied assuming flavor-conserving interactions, yet they can in principle…

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

It is known that muons are scarce just after the birth of a proto-neutron star via a supernova explosion but get more abundant as the proto-neutron star cools via neutrino emissions on the Kelvin-Helmholtz timescale. In this paper we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-15 Ken'ichi Sugiura , Shun Furusawa , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Shoichi Yamada

We present updated cosmological constraints on axion-lepton interactions based on state-of-the-art computations of the thermal axion abundance. By combining Planck Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data with baryon acoustic oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Marcin Badziak , Adam Gomułka , Maxim Laletin , Krzysztof Szafrański

We study the discovery potential for heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) and the perspectives for determining their coupling properties at a muon collider. Focusing on their couplings to the Standard Model (SM) gauge bosons $\gamma, Z,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-11 Tao Han , Tong Li , Xing Wang

We show that in theories of axionlike particles (ALPs) coupled to electrons at tree-level, the one-loop effective coupling to photons is process dependent: the effective coupling relevant for decay processes, $g_{a\gamma}^{\text{(D)}}$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-29 Ricardo Z. Ferreira , M. C. David Marsh , Eike Müller

In this work, we show that, if axion-like particles (ALPs) from core-collapse supernovae (SNe) couple to protons, they would produce very characteristic signatures in neutrino water Cherenkov detectors through their scattering off free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 David Alonso-González , David Cerdeño , Marina Cermeño , Andres D. Perez