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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

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

We study axion-like particles (ALPs) with quark-flavor-violating couplings at the LHC. Specifically, we focus on the theoretical scenario with ALP-top-up and ALP-top-charm interactions, in addition to the more common quark-flavor-diagonal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Kingman Cheung , Fei-Tung Chung , Giovanna Cottin , Zeren Simon Wang

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

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

Motivated by the more and more abundant experimental data, we revisit the couplings of axion-like particle (ALP) to electroweak gauge bosons across the ALP mass range from MeV to 100 GeV. The current and future experimental limits on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Jin Sun , Zhi-Peng Xing , Seokhoon Yun

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

Leptophilic axion-like particles (ALPs) exhibit rich phenomenology, focusing exclusively on interactions between an ALP and Standard Model (SM) leptons. Through integration by parts, it is shown that both the three-point interaction,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Xu-Hui Jiang , Chih-Ting Lu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavor violating couplings can be probed in exotic muon and tau decays. The sensitivity of different experiments depends strongly on the ALP mass and its couplings to leptons and photons. For ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner , Marvin Schnubel , Andrea Thamm

We propose new searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) processes. This proposal exploits the often-overlooked coupling of ALPs to W bosons, leading to FCNC production of ALPs even in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 Eder Izaguirre , Tongyan Lin , Brian Shuve

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

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

We propose a search for long lived axion-like particles (ALPs) in exotic top decays. Flavour-violating ALPs appear as low energy effective theories for various new physics scenarios such as t-channel dark sectors or Froggatt-Nielsen models.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-21 Adrian Carmona , Fatemeh Elahi , Christiane Scherb , Pedro Schwaller

We propose new perspective in searching for axion-like particles (ALPs) from quark and lepton flavor physics: measurements of the time-dependent CP asymmetry in $B^0 \to K_S^0 \pi^0 \gamma$ and the branching ratio of $B_s \to e^\pm \mu^\mp$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Hiroyuki Ishida , Shinya Matsuzaki , Yoshihiro Shigekami

We revisit the flavor-changing processes involving an axion-like particle (ALP) in the context of generic ALP effective lagrangian with a discussion of possible UV completions providing the origin of the relevant bare ALP couplings. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-12 Kiwoon Choi , Sang Hui Im , Chan Beom Park , Seokhoon Yun

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model, and their masses can naturally be well below the electroweak scale. In the presence of couplings to electroweak bosons, these particles could be emitted in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-04 The BABAR Collaboration

In this paper we study axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavour-violating (LFV) couplings in the mass regime above the muon threshold, $m_a>m_\mu$, where the strong bound from the exotic muon decay $\mu\to ea$ no longer apply and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Marco Ardu , Lorenzo Calibbi , Marco Fedele , Federico Mescia

We explore the signals of axion-like particles (ALPs) in flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) processes. The most general effective linear Lagrangian for ALP couplings to the electroweak bosonic sector is considered, and its contribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-05 M. B. Gavela , R. Houtz , P. Quilez , R. del Rey , O. Sumensari

In hidden-sector models, axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), leading to rich phenomenologies. We study ALPs produced from $D$- and $B$-meson decays via quark-flavor-violating couplings, and decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang , Wei Liu

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
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