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Axionlike particles (ALPs) and dark photons (DPs) are viable dark matter particle candidates. We have searched for possible ALP/DP signals in the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector using 440 kg$\cdot$yr of data. A binned likelihood fit is…

The virtual production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in the light-by-light scattering at the CLIC collider is studied. Both differential and total cross sections are calculated, assuming interaction of the ALP with photons via CP-odd term…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 S. C. Inan , A. V. Kisselev

Searches for the axion and axionlike particles may hold the key to unlocking some of the deepest puzzles about our universe, such as dark matter and dark energy. Here we use the recently demonstrated spin-based amplifier to constrain such…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-10 Yuanhong Wang , Haowen Su , Min Jiang , Ying Huan , Yushu Qin , Chang Guo , Zehao Wang , Dongdong Hu , Wei Ji , Pavel Fadeev , Xinhua Peng , Dmitry Budker

Axion dark matter passing through the magnetospheres of magnetars can undergo hyper-efficient resonant mixing with low-energy photons, leading to the production of narrow spectral lines that could be detectable on Earth. Since this is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Sandip Roy , Anirudh Prabhu , Christopher Thompson , Samuel J. Witte , Carlos Blanco , Jonathan Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons, natural in extensions of the Standard Model. Their interactions with ordinary matter and radiation are suppressed, making it challenging to detect them in laboratory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 S. V. Troitsky

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are one of the most widely discussed extensions of the Standard Model when it comes to the strong CP problem and dark matter candidates. Current experiments are focused on the indirect searches of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-12 Aleksandr Pustyntsev , Marc Vanderhaeghen

Axion Like Particles (ALPs), postulated to solve the strong-CP problem, are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic fields, which may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-13 Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , David Paneque , Elliott D. Bloom , Francisco Prada , Alberto Dominguez

The QCD axion was originally predicted as a dynamical solution to the strong CP problem. Axion like particles (ALPs) are also a generic prediction of many high energy physics models including string theory. Theoretical models for axions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-11 David J. E. Marsh

Axion and axion-like particles (ALPs), predicted by various extensions of the Standard Model, can be copiously produced in nuclear reactors via the Primakoff process. In this work, we explore the detection of such relativistic ALPs through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Yuanlin Gong , Jun Guo , Ning Liu , Liangliang Su , Wen-Na Yang

We investigate the role of an axion-like particle (ALP) as a portal between the dark and visible sectors. Unlike conventional studies, which typically assume fermionic dark matter (DM), we explore the phenomenological implications of scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Francesco D'Eramo , Tommaso Sassi

Experimental searches for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) which couple to the electroweak bosons span over a wide range of ALP masses, from MeV searches at beam-dump experiments, to TeV searches at the LHC. Here we examine an interesting range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-27 Noah Steinberg

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are among of the most popular candidates for dark matter. Axions are also considered as new physics contributions to the muon g-2. Following the existed interest to ALPs we consider interaction between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-14 Alexey Lichkunov , Alexander Studenikin

Conventional approaches to probing axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) typically rely on a coupling to photons. However, if this coupling is extremely weak, ALPs become invisible and are effectively decoupled from the Standard Model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Camila S. Machado , Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller , Ben A. Stefanek

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear from spontaneous global symmetry breaking in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we find bounds on ALP ($a$) model parameters at the LHC from the ALP production associated with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Javad Ebadi , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Axion-like particles (ALPs), predicted in theories beyond the Standard Model, can have observational effects on the transparency of the Universe to $\gamma$ rays in the presence of magnetic fields. In this work, we search for effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-30 Rolf Buehler , Galo Gallardo , Gernot Maier , Alberto Domínguez , Marcos López , Manuel Meyer

Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao

We present a proposal to search for QCD axions with mass in the 200 $\mu$eV range, assuming that they make a dominant component of dark matter. Due to the axion-electron spin coupling, their effect is equivalent to the application of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-24 R. Barbieri , C. Braggio , G. Carugno , C. S. Gallo , A. Lombardi , A. Ortolan , R. Pengo , G. Ruoso , C. C. Speake

Axion remains the most convincing solution to the strong-CP problem and a well-motivated dark matter candidate, causing the search for axions and axion-like particles(ALPs) to attract attention continually. The exchange of such particles…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-02 Lei Chen , Jian Liu , Kadi Zhu

The axion-like particle (ALP) is a well motivated new particle candidate of beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we propose to probe the ALP through the photon fusion scattering at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Yandong Liu , Bin Yan

Dark matter direct (and indirect) detection experiments usually can only determine a specific combination of a power of the coupling and the dark matter density. This is also true for axion haloscopes which are sensitive to the product…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Virgile Dandoy , Joerg Jaeckel , Valentina Montoya