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Hunting for ALPs with Lepton Flavor Violation

We examine the low-energy signatures of axion-like particles (ALPs) in lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes. By using a dimension-5 effective Lagrangian, we compute the most general ALP contributions to LFV decays of leptons and mesons.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-22 Claudia Cornella , Paride Paradisi , Olcyr Sumensari

On the impact of magnetic-field models in galaxy clusters on constraints on axion-like particles from the lack of irregularities in high-energy spectra of astrophysical sources

Photons may convert to axion-like particles (ALPs) in external magnetic fields. Under certain conditions, this effect should result in irregular features in observed spectra of astrophysical sources. Lack of such irregularities in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-30 Maxim Libanov , Sergey Troitsky

The cost of an ALP solution to the neutral $B$-anomalies

The neutral anomalies in $B$ decays are analysed in terms of the tree-level exchange of an axion-like-particle (ALP), within the effective field theory framework. The complete two-dimensional parameter space for ALP couplings to electrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 J. Bonilla , A. de Giorgi , B. Gavela , L. Merlo , M. Ramos

Leptonic Meson Decays into Invisible ALP

The theoretical calculation of pseudo-scalar leptonic decay widths into an invisible ALP, $M \to \ell\, \nu_\ell\, a$, is reviewed. Assuming generic flavour-conserving ALP couplings to SM fermions and a generic ALP mass, $m_a$, the latest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Jorge Alda Gallo , Alfredo Walter Mario Guerrera , Siannah Peñaranda , Stefano Rigolin

Searching for axion-like time-dependent cosmic birefringence with data from SPT-3G

Ultralight axionlike particles (ALPs) are compelling dark matter candidates because of their potential to resolve small-scale discrepancies between $\Lambda$CDM predictions and cosmological observations. Axion-photon coupling induces a…

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Revisiting the analysis of axion-like particles with the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observation of NGC1275

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Axion-like Particle Searches at DarkQuest

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Search for an axion-like particle in radiative $J/\psi$ decays

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Probe of axion-like particles in vector boson scattering at a muon collider

We have examined the sensitivity to the axion-like particle (ALP) couplings to electroweak gauge bosons in the diphoton production at a future muon collider. The collisions at the $\mu^+ \mu^-$ energies of 3 TeV, 14 TeV, and 100 TeV are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-08 S. C. İnan , A. V. Kisselev

Resonant ALP-Portal Dark Matter Annihilation as a Solution to the $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} \nu \bar{\nu}$ Excess

The Belle II collaboration recently reported a $2.7\sigma$ excess in the rare decay $B^\pm \to K^\pm \nu \bar{\nu}$, potentially signaling new physics. We propose an axion-like particle (ALP)-portal dark matter (DM) framework to explain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Kewen Ding , Ying Li , Xuewen Liu , Yu Liu , Chih-Ting Lu , Bin Zhu

Betelgeuse Constraints on Coupling between Axion-like Particles and Electrons

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can be produced by thermal processes in a stellar interior, escape from the star and, if sufficiently light, be converted into photons in the external Galactic magnetic field. Such a process could produce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-27 Mengjiao Xiao , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi , Kerstin M. Perez , Oscar Straniero , Brian W. Grefenstette

Light Axion-Like Particles at Future Lepton Colliders

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

ALP Production from Abelian Gauge Bosons: Beyond Hard Thermal Loops

Previous computations of feebly interacting particle production have encountered issues with unphysical (negative) interaction rates at soft momenta. We address this problem by studying the production of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-05 Mathias Becker , Julia Harz , Enrico Morgante , Cristina Puchades-Ibáñez , Pedro Schwaller

Invisible decays of axion-like particles: constraints and prospects

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

ALP one-loop corrections and nonresonant searches

We consider the complete leading-order -- dimension five -- effective linear Lagrangian for ALPs. The full set of one-loop contributions to ALP-SM effective couplings are derived, including all finite corrections. A few phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-20 Jesús Bonilla

ALP Dark Matter Mini-Clusters from Kinetic Fragmentation

We show that very compact axion mini-clusters can form in models where axion-like-particle (ALP) dark matter is produced via the kinetic misalignment mechanism, which is well-motivated in pre-inflationary $U(1)$ symmetry breaking scenarios.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-06 Cem Eröncel , Géraldine Servant

Bounds on ALP-Mediated Dark Matter Models from Celestial Objects

We have studied the signals from axion-like particles (ALPs) as dark matter mediators from celestial objects such as neutron stars, brown dwarfs or white dwarfs. We consider the accumulation of dark matter inside the celestial objects using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 Tanech Klangburam , Chakrit Pongkitivanichkul

Saving or Destroying the Universe with Axion-Like Particles

Light pseudoscalar resonances that couple to the Standard Model via non-renormalizable operators, such as axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), generate contributions to the renormalization group evolution equations of couplings of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert

Searching for dark matter with a 1000 km baseline interferometer

Axion-like particles (ALPs) arise from well-motivated extensions to the Standard Model and could account for dark matter. ALP dark matter would manifest as a field oscillating at an (as of yet) unknown frequency. The frequency depends…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Daniel Gavilan-Martin , Grzegorz Lukasiewicz , Mikhail Padniuk , Emmanuel Klinger , Magdalena Smolis , Nataniel L. Figueroa , Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Alexander O. Sushkov , Szymon Pustelny , Dmitry Budker , Arne Wickenbrock