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The hot and dense conditions of the supernova core provide an ideal environment for the production of new feebly-interacting particles. Low-energy supernovae, characterized by low explosion energy, are particularly intriguing due to their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Changqian Li , Zuowei Liu , Wenxi Lu , Zicheng Ye

Electrons and electron neutrinos in the inner core of the core-collapse supernova are highly degenerate and therefore numerous during a few seconds of explosion. In contrast, leptons of other flavors are non-degenerate and therefore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-06 Oleg Lychkovskiy , Sergei Blinnikov , Mikhail Vysotsky

We study the possibility of finding the axion-like particles (ALPs) through the leptonic decays of heavy mesons. The Standard Model (SM) predictions of the branching ratios of the leptonic decays of heavy mesons are less than the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Gang Yang , Tianhong Wang , Guo-Li Wang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons that arise in many extensions of the Standard Model and are well-motivated dark matter candidates. Nearby massive stars in the late stages of stellar evolution provide a…

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

We have examined the sensitivity to the axion-like particle (ALP) couplings to electroweak gauge bosons in the diphoton production at a future muon collider. The collisions at the $\mu^+ \mu^-$ energies of 3 TeV, 14 TeV, and 100 TeV are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-08 S. C. İnan , A. V. Kisselev

Supernova cooling provides a powerful probe of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), in particular for new, light states interacting feebly with SM particles. In this work, we investigate for the first time the production of fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-31 Yugen Lin , Chih-Ting Lu , Ningqiang Song

Decaying axion-like particles (ALP) with masses in the eV range which might occupy dark matter halos of the Milky Way and other galaxies produce a characteristic "bump" feature in the spectrum of extragalactic background light (EBL). This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-20 A. Korochkin , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz

In this paper, we explore the phenomenology of massive Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) coupled to quarks and gluons, dubbed 'QCD ALPs', with an emphasis on the associated low-energy observables. ALPs coupled to gluons and quarks not only induce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Alessandro Lella , Eike Ravensburg , Pierluca Carenza , M. C. David Marsh

Future muon colliders with center-of-mass energy of $\mathcal{O}(1-10)$ TeV can provide a clean high-energy environment with advantages in searches for TeV-scale axion-like particles (ALPs), pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 So Chigusa , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Yufei Zhang

Flavor violating processes in the lepton sector have highly suppressed branching ratios in the standard model. Thus, observation of lepton flavor violation (LFV) constitutes a clear indication of physics beyond the standard model (BSM). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Alexey A. Petrov , Renae Conlin , Cody Grant

We explore the feasibility of using TeV-energy muons to probe lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) processes mediated by an axion-like particle (ALP) $a$ with mass $\mathcal{O}(10~\textrm{GeV})$. We focus on $\mu\tau$ LFV interactions and assume…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 Brian Batell , Hooman Davoudiasl , Roman Marcarelli , Ethan T. Neil , Sebastian Trojanowski

Recently, muon production in electron-proton scattering has been suggested as a possible candidate reaction for the identification of lepton-flavor violation due to physics beyond the Standard Model. Here we point out that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Prashanth Jaikumar , Daniel R. Phillips , Lucas Platter , Madappa Prakash

The parameter space of massive axion-like-particles (ALPs) with $m_a \sim {\mathcal O} (100)$ MeV and coupled with nucleons is largely unexplored. Here, we present new constraints in this parameter region. In doing so, we characterize the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-11 Alessandro Lella , Pierluca Carenza , Giuseppe Lucente , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

Axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton flavour violating (LFV) interactions are predicted within a wide range of flavoured ALP models. The proposed $\mu$TRISTAN high-energy $e^-\mu^+$ and $\mu^+\mu^+$ collider will provide a good…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-21 Lorenzo Calibbi , Tong Li , Lopamudra Mukherjee , Yiming Yang

Any axionlike particle (ALP) intrinsically possesses flavorful couplings to the standard model (SM) fermions arising as a consequence of the right-handed flavor rotation within the SM. In this paper we discuss this intrinsically flavored…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Chuan-Xin Cui , Hiroyuki Ishida , Shinya Matsuzaki , Yoshihiro Shigekami

We revise the bound from the supernova SN1987A on the coupling of ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) to photons. In a core-collapse supernova, ALPs would be emitted via the Primakoff process, and eventually convert into gamma rays in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-09 Alexandre Payez , Carmelo Evoli , Tobias Fischer , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi , Andreas Ringwald

With the improvement of muon acceleration technology, it has received great interest to exploit high-energy muon beams for collision or target experiments. We investigate possible charged Lepton Flavor Violation (cLFV) processes mediated by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-29 Ran Ding , Jingshu Li , Meng Lu , Zhengyun You , Zijian Wang , Qiang Li

The observation of lepton flavour violation (LFV) in the charged lepton sector would be an unambiguous sign of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), and thus, it is the channel of choice for many BSM searches. LFV searches in muon decays…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-23 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort