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We perform a linear mode analysis of a uniformly distributed cloud of axion-like particles (ALPs) embedded in a magnetized intergalactic medium, in order to investigate the stability of axion stars under realistic astrophysical conditions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Kuldeep J. Purohit , Jitesh R. Bhatt , Subhendra Mohanty , Prashant K. Mehta

We investigate the possible parametric growth of photon amplitudes in a background of axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter. The observed extragalactic background radiation limits the allowed enhancement effect. We derive the resulting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 Günter Sigl , Pranjal Trivedi

We present a novel data-driven method for determining the hadronic interaction strengths of axion-like particles (ALPs) with QCD-scale masses. Using our method, it is possible to calculate the hadronic production and decay rates of ALPs,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Daniel Aloni , Yotam Soreq , Mike Williams

We study photon-ALP conversion by resonance effects in the magnetized plasma of galaxy clusters and compare the predicted distortion of the cosmic microwave background spectrum in the direction of such objects to measurements of the thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-05 Martin Schlederer , Günter Sigl

Axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavor violating couplings can be probed in exotic muon and tau decays. The sensitivity of different experiments depends strongly on the ALP mass and its couplings to leptons and photons. For ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner , Marvin Schnubel , Andrea Thamm

We study axion-like particles (ALPs) with quark-flavor-violating couplings at the LHC. Specifically, we focus on the theoretical scenario with ALP-top-up and ALP-top-charm interactions, in addition to the more common quark-flavor-diagonal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Kingman Cheung , Fei-Tung Chung , Giovanna Cottin , Zeren Simon Wang

We study the LHC phenomenology of an Axion Like Particle (ALP) that couples only derivatively with the top quark at tree level. We inspect the radiatively induced couplings with the SM fermions and (gauge) bosons and the associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-19 Simone Blasi , Fabio Maltoni , Alberto Mariotti , Ken Mimasu , Davide Pagani , Simone Tentori

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can be naturally lighter than the electroweak scale. We consider an ALP that couples to the Standard Model Higgs to achieve the strong first-order electroweak phase transition. We discuss the two-field dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 Keisuke Harigaya , Isaac R. Wang

We give updated constraints on hypothetical light bosons with a two-photon coupling such as axions or axion-like particles (ALPs). We focus on masses and lifetimes where decays happen near big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), thus altering the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Marius Millea , Lloyd Knox , Brian Fields

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted in some well-motivated theories beyond the Standard Model. The TeV gamma-rays from active galactic nuclei (AGN) suffer attenuation by the pair production interactions with the cosmic background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-11 Guangbo Long , Siyu Chen , Shuo Xu , Hong-Hao Zhang

We study how the coupling between axion-like particles (ALPs) and matter can be obtained at the level of on-shell scattering amplitudes. We identify three conditions that allow us to compute amplitudes that correspond to shift-symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-29 Enrico Bertuzzo , Christophe Grojean , Gabriel M. Salla

We investigate a new production mechanism of axion-like particle (ALP) from $B$ meson annihilation decays and its observation potential at the Belle and Belle II experiments. This mechanism allows for the production of ALP from $B$ meson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Yi Zhang , Akimasa Ishikawa , Emi Kou , Daniel Thomas Marcantonio , Phillip Urquijo

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

We discuss constraints on soft CP-violating couplings of axion-like particles with photon and fermions by using data on electric dipole moments of Standard Model particles. In particular, for the ALP leptophilic scenario we derive bounds on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-29 D. V. Kirpichnikov , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Alexey S. Zhevlakov

Axion like particles (ALPs) are fundamental pseudo scalar particles with properties similar to Axions which are a well-known extension of the standard model to solve the strong CP problem in Quantum Chromodynamics. ALPs can oscillate into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-30 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns

We propose the possibility of discovering a light pseudoscalar particle $a$, axion-like particle (ALP), interacting mainly with quarks using the electron and photon scattering reaction chain $e + Z \rightarrow e + \gamma + Z$; $\gamma + Z…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a compelling avenue for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model. In astrophysical magnetized plasmas an ALP-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma}$ induces energy-dependent oscillations in the photon survival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Yu Zhou , Jiejia Liu , Volodymyr Takhistov , Kazuhisa Mitsuda

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

We use multimessenger observations of the neutron star merger event GW170817 to derive new constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling to photons. ALPs are produced via Primakoff and photon coalescence processes in the merger,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-24 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Jean-François Fortin , Steven P. Harris , Kuver Sinha , Yongchao Zhang

The axion-like particle (ALP) is a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model. In this work, we revisit the sensitivity of forward accelerator experiments to light long-lived ALPs, and analyze flavor constraints. Our analysis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Tong Li , Michael A. Schmidt , Man Yuan