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We study how rotation modifies the constraints on MeV-scale axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to photons derived from SN 1987A. We constrain the ALP parameter space based on both the energy-loss argument and the gamma-ray limits, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Tsurugi Takata , Kanji Mori , Ko Nakamura , Kei Kotake

In a Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN), axionlike particles (ALPs) could be emitted via the Primakoff process and eventually convert into $\gamma$ rays in the magnetic field of the Milky Way. From a data-driven sensitivity estimate, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Manuel Meyer , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi , Jan Conrad , Miguel Sanchez-Conde

Axion-like particles (ALP) can in principle be produced in very hot and dense astrophysical environments, escape from the extreme object where such conditions are met, and then be converted in gamma--rays in the magnetic fields intervening…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Fabio Iocco

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

It has been recently claimed by two different groups that the spectral modulation observed in gamma rays from Galactic pulsars and supernova remnants can be due to conversion of photons into ultra-light axion-like-particles (ALPs) in…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) produced via the Primakoff process in the cores of Galactic core-collapse supernovae (SNe) could convert into MeV-energy gamma-rays through interactions with the Milky Way's magnetic field. To evaluate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Zhen Xie , Jiahao Liu , Bing Liu , Ruizhi Yang

We perform spherically symmetric simulations of core-collapse supernovae with the aid of heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) which interact with photons and redistribute energy within supernova matter. We explore a wide ALP parameter space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-05 Tsurugi Takata , Kanji Mori , Ko Nakamura , Kei Kotake

We investigate the characteristics of the gamma-ray signal following the decay of MeV-scale Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) coupled to photons which are produced in a Supernova (SN) explosion. This analysis is the first to include the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-03 Eike Müller , Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Christopher Eckner , M. C. David Marsh

The hot and dense core formed in the collapse of a massive star is a powerful source of hypothetical feebly-interacting particles such as sterile neutrinos, dark photons, axion-like particles (ALPs), and others. Radiative decays such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Andrea Caputo , Hans-Thomas Janka , Georg Raffelt , Edoardo Vitagliano

We revisit the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to electrons at tree-level in a relativistic plasma. We explicitly demonstrate the equivalence between pseudoscalar and derivative couplings, incorporate previously neglected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Tetyana Pitik , Edoardo Vitagliano

During a core-collapse supernova (SN), axion-like particles (ALPs) could be produced through the Primakoff process and subsequently convert into gamma rays in the magnetic field of the Milky Way. Using a sample of well studied extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Manuel Meyer , Tanja Petrushevska

We update the globular cluster bound on massive ($m_a$ up to a few 100 keV) axion-like particles (ALP) interacting with photons. The production of such particles in the stellar core is dominated by the Primakoff $\gamma + Ze\to Ze +a$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 Pierluca Carenza , Oscar Straniero , Babette Döbrich , Maurizio Giannotti , Giuseppe Lucente , Alessandro Mirizzi

In this article, we claim that axion-like particles (ALPs) with MeV masses can be produced with semi-relativistic velocities in core-collapse supernovae (SNe), generating a diffuse galactic flux. We show that these ALPs can be detected in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-15 David Alonso-González , David Cerdeño , Marina Cermeño , Andres D. Perez

New feebly interacting particles would emerge from a supernova core with 100-MeV-range energies and produce $\gamma$-rays by subsequent decays. These would contribute to the diffuse cosmic $\gamma$-ray background or would have shown up in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-17 Melissa Diamond , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Edoardo Vitagliano

Supernova (SN) 1987A is a celebrated laboratory in searches for gamma-ray flashes produced by the radiative decay of sub-GeV particles such as axion-like particles (ALPs), sterile neutrinos, and novel gauge bosons. At large couplings,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Francisco R. Candón , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Hans-Thomas Janka , Bart F. A. van Baal , Edoardo Vitagliano

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons can quantum mechanically interconvert when propagating through magnetic fields, and ALP-photon conversion may induce oscillatory features in the spectra of astrophysical sources. We use deep (370 ks),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-27 M. C. David Marsh , Helen R. Russell , Andrew C. Fabian , Brian R. McNamara , Paul Nulsen , Christopher S. Reynolds

A future Galactic Supernova (SN) explosion can lead to a gamma-ray signal induced by ultralight Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) thermally produced in the SN core and converted into high-energy photons in the Galactic magnetic field. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Christopher Eckner , Maurizio Giannotti , Giuseppe Lucente , Alessandro Mirizzi , Francesco Sivo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a class of hypothetical pseudoscalar particles which feebly interact with ordinary matter. The hot plasma of core-collapse supernovae is a possible laboratory to explore physics beyond the standard model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-23 Kanji Mori , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Shunsaku Horiuchi

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

The Fermi-LAT observations of SN 2023ixf, a Type II supernova in the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy, Messier 101 (M101), presents us with an excellent opportunity to constrain MeV-scale Axion-Like Particles (ALPs). By examining the photon decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-18 Eike Ravensburg , Pierluca Carenza , Christopher Eckner , Ariel Goobar