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This article describes a search for low-mass axion-like particles (ALPs) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). If ALPs were produced at the LHC via gluon-gluon fusion and decayed to bosons, the energy dependence of the measured diboson…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-29 Sonia Carra , Vincent Goumarre , Ruchi Gupta , Sarah Heim , Beate Heinemann , Jan Kuechler , Federico Meloni , Pablo Quilez , Yee-Chinn Yap

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

In this work, motivated by several beyond the Standard Model signal topologies, we perform detailed background mitigation analyses for the DUNE near detector. Specifically, we investigate $e^+ e^-$, $e^- \gamma$, $\gamma$, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Vedran Brdar , Bhaskar Dutta , Wooyoung Jang , Doojin Kim , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Adrian Thompson , Jaehoon Yu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can be copiously produced in binary neutron star (BNS) mergers through nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung if the ALP-nucleon couplings $g_{a N}$ are sizable. The ALP-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma}$ may trigger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Francesca Lecce , Alessandro Lella , Giuseppe Lucente , Vimal Vijayan , Andreas Bauswein , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

If axion-like particles (ALPs) constitute a major part of dark matter (DM), due to the bosonic nature and a relative small mass, they could behave differently from the point like dark matter particles on the formation of the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-11 Qiaoli Yang , Haoran Di

We discuss axion-like particles (ALPs) within the framework of Higgs Effective Field Theory, targeting instances of close alignment of ALP physics with a custodial singlet character of the Higgs boson. We tension constraints arising from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-22 Anisha , Supratim Das Bakshi , Christoph Englert , Panagiotis Stylianou

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

Relativistic axion-like particles (ALPs) originating from the stellar interiors, along with the ones coming from photon-ALP mixing in the galactic magnetic fields, contribute together to make an energetic component of the ALP content of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-09 Athanasios Manousos , Anastasios Liolios , Christos Eleftheriadis

Quiescent hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emission from neutron stars constitute a promising frontier to explore axion-like-particles (ALPs). ALP production in the core peaks at energies of a few keV to a few hundreds of keV; subsequently,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-19 Jean-François Fortin , Huai-Ke Guo , Steven P. Harris , Elijah Sheridan , Kuver Sinha

The detection of very high-energy neutrinos by IceCube experiment supports the existence of a comparable gamma-ray counterpart from the same cosmic accelerators. Under the likely assumption that the sources of these particles are of…

Axion-like particles (ALPs), relatively light (pseudo-)scalars coupled to two gauge bosons, are a common feature of many extensions of the Standard Model. Up to now there has been a gap in the sensitivity to such particles in the MeV to 10…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Joerg Jaeckel , Michael Spannowsky

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

We investigate the discovery potential for long-lived particles produced in association with a top-antitop quark pair at the (High-Luminosity) LHC. Compared to inclusive searches for a displaced vertex, top-associated signals offer new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-02 Lovisa Rygaard , Jeremi Niedziela , Ruth Schäfer , Sebastian Bruggisser , Juliette Alimena , Susanne Westhoff , Freya Blekman

The discovery of a new type of a heavy long-lived particle (LLP) would be of fundamental significance due to their existence in many beyond the Standard Model scenarios. LLPs are anticipated in a wide range of physics models which extend…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Paul D. Jackson

Axion-Like-Particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudo-scalar particles actively searched as light dark matter candidates. The coupling of ALPs to photons can give rise to distinctive spectral features in the observed gamma-ray spectrum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Cervane Grimaud , Denys Malyshev , Emmanuel Moulin

Axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates whose coupling to photons induces periodic oscillations in the polarization angle of astrophysical light. This work reports the first search for such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Qiu-Ju Huang , Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

In light of the recent branching fraction measurement of the $B^{+}\to K^{+} \nu\bar{\nu}$ decay by Belle II and its poor agreement with the SM expectation, we analyze the effects of an axion-like particle (ALP) in $B$ meson decays. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Shibasis Roy

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

The search for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) remains a major endeavor in modern physics investigation. Axions play essential roles in the quest to understand dark matter, the strong CP problem, and various astrophysical phenomena.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Maurizio Giannotti

In the past few years, the search for axion-like particles (ALPs) has grown significantly due to their potential to account for the total abundance of the cold dark matter (CDM) in the universe. The coupling between ALPs and photons allows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Ahmed Ayad , Geoff Beck