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We explore the possibility of detecting the couplings of axion-like particle (ALP) with leptons from their loop-level impact on the ALP couplings to electroweak (EW) gauge bosons via the signal process $e^+ e^- \to \gamma \gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-08 Chong-Xing Yue , Xin-Yang Li , Xiao-Chen Sun

In the ALP model, lepton flavor violation (LFV) can arise from off-diagonal ALP-lepton couplings ($g_{a\ell_i\ell_j}$), which are absent in the Standard Model. We focus on ALP production via gluon fusion ($pp \to a$) at the Large Hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Xiaochu Zheng , Ruitian Li , Jing Li , Hao Sun

We study the possibility of probing the existence of a light, invisible, axion-like particle (ALP) $a$ in leptonic decays of the $Z$ boson at the proposed high-energy $e^+e^-$ colliders, CEPC and FCC-ee. Both projects plan to run at the $Z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-11 Lorenzo Calibbi , Zijie Huang , Shaoyang Qin , Yiming Yang , Xiaoyue Yin

In this paper, we explore the interactions between light axion-like particles (ALPs) and top quarks, gluons, and W-bosons. Utilizing high-energy probes at the LHC, we probe these couplings in the context of single top quark production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

The weak decays $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm a$ offer a powerful probe of axion-like particles (ALPs). In this work, we provide a comprehensive analysis of these processes within chiral perturbation theory, extending existing calculations by including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-16 Claudia Cornella , Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert , Daniel Wyler

We study the collider phenomenology of leptophilic axion-like particles (ALPs), i.e. pseudoscalar particles that couple only to charged leptons. Loops of charged leptons induce effective interactions of the ALPs with photons, which depend…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Alexander Eberhart , Marco Fedele , Felix Kahlhoefer , Eike Ravensburg , Robert Ziegler

The sensitivity of the proposed FCC-ee collider to axion-like particles (ALPs) is investigated at all planned center-of-mass energies, with focus on the case where the ALP couples primarily to electroweak gauge bosons at leading order. We…

We study the interactions of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with the Standard Model particles, aiming to probe their phenomenology via non-resonant searches at the LHC. These interactions are mediated by higher dimensional effective operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-09 Tisa Biswas

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

The axion-like particle (ALP) may induce flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) when their Peccei-Quinn charges are not generation universal. The search for flavor-violating ALP couplings with a bottom quark so far focused on FCNC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-29 Tong Li , Zhuoni Qian , Michael A. Schmidt , Man Yuan

The axion-like particle (ALP) is one of the best motivated particles beyond the Standard Model (SM). We explore the possibility of detecting the couplings of ALP with leptons via three-lepton final state processes $e^- p \to e^- j a~(a \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-03 Chong-Xing Yue , Xin-Yang Li , Mei-Shu-Yu Wang , Yang-Yang Bu

Axion-like particles can couple to Standard Model gluons, electroweak gauge bosons, and massive fermions. A future multi-TeV muon collider provides a favorable environment to probe axion-like particles through multiple production channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 So Chigusa , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Yufei Zhang

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

We explore the potential of the Mu2e experiment to probe the lepton-flavor-violating process $\mu^- e^- \to e^- e^-$ in a muonic atom within a simplified axion-like particle (ALP) framework featuring flavor-violating $e$-$\mu$ couplings and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Girish Kumar , Alexey A. Petrov

We study axion-like particles (ALPs) whose dominant interactions are with gluons and third-generation quarks, and whose couplings to light Standard Model (SM) particles arise at one loop. These loop-induced effects lead to ALP decays and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Jon Butterworth , Matthew Cullingworth , Joseph Egan , Fabian Esser , Veronica Sanz , Maria Ubiali

Studies of axion-like particles (ALPs) commonly focus on a single type of interaction, for example couplings only to photons. Most ALP models however predict correlations between different couplings, which change the phenomenology in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Fatih Ertas , Felix Kahlhoefer

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are ubiquitous in models of new physics explaining some of the most pressing puzzles of the Standard Model. However, until relatively recently, little attention has been paid to its interplay with flavour. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Adrian Carmona , Christiane Scherb , Pedro Schwaller

We present a comprehensive study of axion-like particles (ALPs) in meson decays, combining effective field theory and ultraviolet models within the open-source tool ALPaca. The analysis accounts for running and matching effects across…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Jorge Alda , Marta Fuentes Zamoro , Luca Merlo , Xavier Ponce Díaz , Stefano Rigolin

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are a generic, calculable, and well motivated extension of the Standard Model with far reaching phenomenology. ALPs that couple only to hypercharge represent one subset of such models, coupling the ALP to both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Noah Steinberg , James D. Wells

The theoretical calculation of pseudo-scalar leptonic decay widths into an invisible ALP, $M \to \ell\, \nu_\ell\, a$, is reviewed. Assuming generic flavour-conserving ALP couplings to SM fermions and a generic ALP mass, $m_a$, the latest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Jorge Alda Gallo , Alfredo Walter Mario Guerrera , Siannah Peñaranda , Stefano Rigolin