English
Related papers

Related papers: Limits on the axion-photon coupling from Chandraya…

200 papers

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical entities often invoked to solve various problems in particle physics to cosmology. They are one of the most promising candidates to explain the elusive dark matter. A way to search for ALPs is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 Rafael Alves Batista , Cristina Viviente , Gaetano Di Marco , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

Very high energy gamma-rays are expected to be absorbed by the extragalactic background light over cosmological distances via the process of electron-positron pair production. Recent observations of cosmologically distant gamma-ray emitters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Melanie Simet , Dan Hooper , Pasquale D. Serpico

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model (SM) that appear in many new physics scenarios, with masses spanning a broad range. In this work, we systematically study the production and detection prospects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Shou-shan Bao , Yang Ma , Yongcheng Wu , Keping Xie , Hong Zhang

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) are very light, neutral, spin zero bosons predicted by superstring theory. ALPs interact primarily with two photons and in the presence of an external magnetic field they generate photon-ALP oscillations and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-29 Giorgio Galanti

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can provide a portal to new states of a dark sector. We study the phenomenology of this portal when the ALP mainly decays invisibly, while its interaction with the standard model sector proceeds essentially via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Luc Darmé , Federica Giacchino , Enrico Nardi , Mauro Raggi

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) emitted from the core of a magnetar can convert to photons in its magnetosphere. The resulting photon flux is sensitive to the product of $(i)$ the ALP-nucleon coupling $G_{an}$ which controls the production…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Sheridan J. Lloyd , Paula M. Chadwick , Anthony M. Brown , Huai-ke Guo , Kuver Sinha

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

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are well-motivated candidates for dark matter and potential mediators to the dark sector. We present a search for ALPs coupled to photons, based on a reinterpretation of COMPASS data. Using the 2009 dataset…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Mehran Dehpour

Oscillations between photons and axion-like particles (ALP) travelling in intergalactic magnetic fields have been invoked to explain a number of astrophysical phenomena, or used to constrain ALP properties using observations. One example is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Chen Wang , Dong Lai

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

The first FASER search for a light, long-lived particle decaying into a pair of photons is reported. The search uses LHC proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13.6~\text{TeV}$ collected in 2022 and 2023, corresponding to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-18 FASER collaboration , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Xiaocong Ai , John Anders , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Jeremy Atkinson , Florian U. Bernlochner , Emma Bianchi , Tobias Boeckh , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Angela Burger , Franck Cadoux , Roberto Cardella , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Xin Chen , Eunhyung Cho , Dhruv Chouhan , Andrea Coccaro , Stephane Débieux , Monica D'Onofrio , Ansh Desai , Sergey Dmitrievsky , Radu Dobre , Sinead Eley , Yannick Favre , Deion Fellers , Jonathan L. Feng , Carlo Alberto Fenoglio , Didier Ferrere , Max Fieg , Wissal Filali , Elena Firu , Edward Galantay , Ali Garabaglu , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Yuri Gornushkin , Carl Gwilliam , Daiki Hayakawa , Michael Holzbock , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Luca Iodice , Sune Jakobsen , Hans Joos , Enrique Kajomovitz , Hiroaki Kawahara , Alex Keyken , Felix Kling , Daniela Köck , Pantelis Kontaxakis , Umut Kose , Rafaella Kotitsa , Susanne Kuehn , Thanushan Kugathasan , Lorne Levinson , Ke Li , Jinfeng Liu , Yi Liu , Margaret S. Lutz , Jack MacDonald , Chiara Magliocca , Toni Mäkelä , Lawson McCoy , Josh McFayden , Andrea Pizarro Medina , Matteo Milanesio , Théo Moretti , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Laurie Nevay , Ken Ohashi , Hidetoshi Otono , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Brian Petersen , Titi Preda , Markus Prim , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Hiroki Rokujo , André Rubbia , Jorge Sabater-Iglesias , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Anna Sfyrla , Davide Sgalaberna , Mansoora Shamim , Savannah Shively , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Ondrej Theiner , Eric Torrence , Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez , Svetlana Vasina , Benedikt Vormwald , Di Wang , Yuxiao Wang , Eli Welch , Yue Xu , Samuel Zahorec , Stefano Zambito , Shunliang Zhang

In this mini-review, possible manifestations of mixing between axion-like particles (ALPs) and energetic photons propagating over astronomical distances are considered. We discuss the evidence for the anomalous transparency of the Universe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-20 S. V. Troitsky

Ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates introduced by theories beyond the standard model. However, the constraints on the existence of ALPs through existing laboratory experiments are hindered by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-01 Min Jiang , Haowen Su , Antoine Garcon , Xinhua Peng , Dmitry Budker

Measurements of the top quark by the ATLAS and CMS experiments go beyond testing the Standard Model (SM) with high precision. Axion-like particles (ALPs), a potential SM extension involving new pseudoscalar particles, exhibit strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Anh Vu Phan

We study cross correlations between line intensity and weak lensing maps to search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Radiative decay of eV-mass ALPs can contribute to cosmic background emissions at optical and infrared wavelengths. Line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Masato Shirasaki

We constrain the coupling between axionlike particles (ALPs) and photons, measured with the superconducting resonant detection circuit of a cryogenic Penning trap. By searching the noise spectrum of our fixed-frequency resonant circuit for…

We constrain the coupling of thermally-produced axion-like particles (here axions) with photons and gluons, using data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectra and baryon acoustic oscillations. The axion possesses an explicit soft…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-12 Luca Caloni , Martina Gerbino , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Luca Visinelli

Astrophysical sources of energetic gamma rays provide the right conditions for maximal mixing between (pseudo)scalar (axion-like) particles and photons if their coupling is as strong as suggested by the PVLAS claim. This is independent of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Fairbairn , S. N. Gninenko , N. V. Krasnikov , V. A. Matveev , T. I. Rashba , A. Rubbia , Sergey Troitsky