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Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles and compelling candidates for cold dark matter. Their existence could be probed through their conversions into photons in the presence of magnetic fields. In this work, we explore the…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). When ALP mass lies in the range of MeV to GeV, the cosmology and astrophysics will be largely irrelevant. In this work, we investigate such light ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Daohan Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Mengchao Zhang

We propose a fixed-target experiment to search for Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling to photons, which utilizes electron and positron beams available at KEK Linac. The sensitivity to ALP is evaluated for two shielding setups in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Akimasa Ishikawa , Yasuhito Sakaki , Yosuke Takubo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to nucleons can be efficiently produced in core-collapse supernovae (SNe) and then, if they couple to photons, convert into gamma rays in cosmic magnetic fields, generating short gamma-ray bursts. Though…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Francesca Lecce , Alessandro Lella , Giuseppe Lucente , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang

Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), very light spin-zero bosons with a two-photon coupling. ALPs can give rise to observable effects in very-high-energy astrophysics. Above roughly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Marco Roncadelli , Alessandro De Angelis , Giorgio Galanti

Proton beam dump experiments are among the most promising strategies to search for light and feebly interacting states such as axion-like particles (ALPs). The interpretation of these experiments is however complicated by the wide range of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-21 Jan Jerhot , Babette Döbrich , Fatih Ertas , Felix Kahlhoefer , Tommaso Spadaro

Hypothetical axion-like particles (ALPs) are of interest because of their potential to act as dark matter or to reveal information about yet undiscovered fundamental constituents of matter. Such particles can be created when photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Denys Malyshev , Lidiia Zadorozhna , Yuriy Bidasyuk , Andrea Santangelo , Oleg Ruchayskiy

A strong bound on the properties of axion-like particles (ALPs) has been set by assuming that ALPs are emitted by the protoneutron star just before the core-bounce in Galactic core-collapse supernovae, and that these ALPs subsequently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-09 Ignazio Bombaci , Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli

Heavy axion-like particles (ALPs), with masses $m_a \gtrsim 100$ keV, coupled with photons, would be copiously produced in a supernova (SN) core via Primakoff process and photon coalescence. Using a state-of-the-art SN model, we revisit the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-07 Giuseppe Lucente , Pierluca Carenza , Tobias Fischer , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

X-ray observations of bright AGNs in or behind galaxy clusters offer unique capabilities to constrain axion-like particles (ALPs). Existing analysis technique rely on measurements of the global goodness-of-fit. We develop a new analysis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Joseph P. Conlon , Markus Rummel

Galactic dark matter may consist of axionlike particles (ALPs) that can be described as an "ultralight bosonic field" oscillating at the ALP Compton frequency. The ALP field can be searched for using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), where…

Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

The Electron-Ion Collider~(EIC), a forthcoming powerful high-luminosity facility, represents an exciting opportunity to explore new physics. In this article, we study the potential of the EIC to probe the coupling between axion-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-01 Reuven Balkin , Or Hen , Wenliang Li , Hongkai Liu , Teng Ma , Yotam Soreq , Mike Williams

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

We propose an experiment for detecting Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) based on the axion-photon interaction in the presence of a non-uniform magnetic field. The impact of virtual ALPs on the polarization of the photons inside a cavity is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Moslem Zarei , Soroush Shakeri , Mohammad Sharifian , Mehdi Abdi , David J. E. Marsh , Sabino Matarrese

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

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to nucleons might be copiously emitted from a supernova (SN) core. We extend existing bounds on free-streaming ALPs to the case in which these are so strongly-interacting with the nuclear matter to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-04 Alessandro Lella , Pierluca Carenza , Giampaolo Co' , Giuseppe Lucente , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi , Thomas Rauscher