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The growing interest in axion-like particles (ALPs) stems from the fact that they provide successful theoretical explanations of physics phenomena, from the anomaly of the CP-symmetry conservation in strong interactions to the observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Ivana Batković , Alessandro De Angelis , Michele Doro , Marina Manganaro

We investigate the possible parametric growth of photon amplitudes in a background of axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter. The observed extragalactic background radiation limits the allowed enhancement effect. We derive the resulting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 Günter Sigl , Pranjal Trivedi

We explore models and phenomenology of a photophobic axion-like particle (ALP), an axion whose coupling to photons is maximally suppressed without fine-tuning of the underlying parameters. We demonstrate that photophobia can be a natural UV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Nathaniel Craig , Anson Hook , Skyler Kasko

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenology of axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in core-collapse supernovae (ccSNe) through interactions with electrons and muons, both of which have a non-negligible abundance in the SN…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Ricardo Z. Ferreira , M. C. David Marsh , Eike Ravensburg

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

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

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

Coupling of axion-like particles (ALPs) to photons in the presence of background magnetic field affects propagation of gamma-rays through magnetized environments. This results in modification in the gamma-ray spectra of sources in or behind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-14 D. Malyshev , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz , A. Santangelo , J. Jochum

The axion-like particle (ALP) is a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model. In this work, we revisit the sensitivity of forward accelerator experiments to light long-lived ALPs, and analyze flavor constraints. Our analysis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Tong Li , Michael A. Schmidt , Man Yuan

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

In this paper, the production of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) at $B$-factories via the process $e^+e^- \to \gamma a$ is revisited. To this purpose, the relevant cross-section is computed via an effective Lagrangian with simultaneous ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-27 L. Merlo , F. Pobbe , S. Rigolin , O. Sumensari

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted in some well-motivated theories beyond the Standard Model. The TeV gamma-rays from active galactic nuclei (AGN) suffer attenuation by the pair production interactions with the cosmic background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-11 Guangbo Long , Siyu Chen , Shuo Xu , Hong-Hao Zhang

Machine learning (ML) techniques have been applied with tremendous success in many areas of physics. In this work, we use ML to place bounds on the coupling between photons and axion-like particles (ALPs). This coupling causes ALPs and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-24 Francesca Day , Sven Krippendorf

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 give an overview of collider searches for Axion-like particles (ALPs). The intention of this review is to give a pedagogical introduction to collider phenomenology of ALPs, and provide a starting point for newcomers, including suitable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-28 Anke Biekötter , Ken Mimasu

A light axion-like particle or an ALP not just gives rise to interesting and spectacular signals of new physics as final states in meson decays, it necessarily leaves tell-tale signatures in processes that involve standard model (SM) fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Triparno Bandyopadhyay , Subhajit Ghosh , Tuhin S. Roy

We review the physics case for very weakly coupled ultralight particles beyond the Standard Model, in particular for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs): (i) the axionic solution of the strong CP problem and its embedding in well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-07 A. Ringwald

We revisit the ALP miracle scenario where the inflaton and dark matter are unified by a single axion-like particle (ALP). We first extend our previous analysis on the inflaton dynamics to identify the whole viable parameter space consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Ryuji Daido , Fuminobu Takahashi , Wen Yin

The optical dump at the LUXE experiment has the potential to create a large flux of $\mathcal{O}({\rm GeV})$ photons that can be used to look for new physics when directed at a solid material dump. The LUXE-NPOD extension of LUXE, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Noam Ness , Barry Cimring

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a well-motivated framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, coupling to gauge bosons through dimension-five operators protected by an approximate shift symmetry. At the LHC, such interactions lead…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Fabian Esser , Alexandre Salas-Bernardez , Maria Ubiali , Veronica Sanz