Extragalactic photon--axion-like particle oscillations up to 1000 TeV
arXiv:1805.12055 · doi:10.1016/j.jheap.2018.07.002
Abstract
Axion-like particles (ALPs) are attracting increasing interest since, among other things, they are a prediction of many extensions of the standard model of elementary particles physics and in particular of superstrings and superbranes. Remarkably, depending on the set of their parameter space, they strongly increase the photon transparency in the very-high energy band. The recent discovery of photon dispersion on the CMB requires a substantial modification of the previous picture: this is indeed the goal of the present paper. We compute the photon survival probability from a blazar to us exactly, and we plot it versus the observed energy for 7 simulated blazars at different and 4 values of a model parameter. Our predictions can be tested by the new generation of -ray observatories like CTA, HAWC, GAMMA-400, LHAASO, TAIGA-HiSCORE and HERD. Finally, for our guessed values of and our ALP can be detected in the upgrade of ALPS II at DESY, the planned experiments IAXO, STAX and ABRACADABRA as well as with other techniques.
27 pages, 14 figures. This version matches the published paper: J. High Energy Astrophys. 20, 1 (2018)
References in corpus (27)
- Revisiting the bound on axion-photon coupling from Globular Clusters
- Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays from a Distant Quasar: How Transparent Is the Universe?
- MAGIC discovery of VHE Emission from the FSRQ PKS 1222+21
- Evidence for a new light spin-zero boson from cosmological gamma-ray propagation?
- GeV breaks in blazars as a result of gamma-ray absorption within the broad-line region
- The Milky Way as a Kiloparsec-Scale Axionscope
- The extragalactic background light revisited and the cosmic photon-photon opacity
- Hints of the existence of Axion-Like-Particles from the gamma-ray spectra of cosmological sources
- Detecting Axion-Like Particles With Gamma Ray Telescopes
- Cluster Magnetic Fields from Galactic Outflows
- On the amplification of magnetic fields in cosmic filaments and galaxy clusters
- Constraining the Axion-Photon Coupling with Massive Stars
- A 3.55 keV Photon Line and its Morphology from a 3.55 keV ALP Line
- Axion-Like Particles, Cosmic Magnetic Fields and Gamma-Ray Astrophysics
- Detecting Chameleons: The Astronomical Polarization Produced by Chameleon-like Scalar Fields
- Photons to axion-like particles conversion in Active Galactic Nuclei
- Intrinsic absorption in 3C 279 at GeV-TeV energies and consequences for estimates of the EBL
- Irregularity in gamma ray source spectra as a signature of axionlike particles
- Behavior of axion-like particles in smoothed out domain-like magnetic fields
- Axionic black branes in the k-essence sector of the Horndeski model
- Evolution of cosmic filaments and of their galaxy population from MHD cosmological simulations
- Axionic black branes with conformal coupling
- Astrophysical Haloscopes
- Shining light through the Sun
- Probing axion-like particles with the ultraviolet photon polarization from active galactic nuclei in radio galaxies
- Seeing the Invisible Axion in the Sparticle Spectrum
- The potential of large germanium detector arrays for solar-axion searches utilizing the axio-electric effect for detection
Cited by in corpus (33)
- Physics potential of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)
- Grand Unified Neutrino Spectrum at Earth: Sources and Spectral Components
- Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation
- Limits on axion-like particles from Mrk 421 with 4.5-year period observations by ARGO-YBJ and Fermi-LAT
- Blazar VHE spectral alterations induced by photon-ALP oscillations
- ASTRI Mini-Array Core Science at the Observatorio del Teide
- Observability of the very-high-energy emission from GRB 221009A
- Axion-like Particles Implications for High-Energy Astrophysics
- Axion and dark photon limits from Crab Nebula high energy gamma-rays
- Massive Argon Space Telescope (MAST): a concept of heavy time projection chamber for gamma-ray astronomy in the 100 MeV --- 1 TeV energy range
- Revisiting the analysis of axion-like particles with the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observation of NGC1275
- Axion production in unstable magnetized plasmas: an active source of dark-matter
- Gamma-ray Cosmology and Tests of Fundamental Physics
- Searching for Axion-Like Particles with the Blazar Observations of MAGIC and Fermi-LAT
- Fundamental physics with blazar spectra: a critical appraisal
- ALP induced polarization effects on photons from galaxy clusters
- On the origin and the detection of characteristic axion wiggles in photon spectra
- Photon-ALP oscillations inducing modifications to photon polarization
- Photon-ALP interaction as a measure of initial photon polarization
- Constraints on Axion-like Particles from the Observation of GRB 221009A by LHAASO
- Implications of photon-ALP oscillations in the extragalactic neutrino source TXS 0506+056 at sub-PeV energies
- Constraints on Axion-like Particles from Observations of Mrk 421 using the Method
- Probing photon-ALP oscillations from the flat spectrum radio quasar 4C+21.35
- Relevance of VHE Blazar Spectra Models with Axion-Like Particles
- Axion-like Particle Effects on Photon Polarization in High-Energy Astrophysics
- Probing the absorption of gamma-rays by IR radiation from the dusty torus in FSRQs with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- Constraints on Axion-like Particles from the gamma-ray observation of the Galactic Center
- Very High Energy Flat Spectral Radio Quasar Candidates
- Constraints on Axion-Like Particles from VERITAS Observations of a Flaring Radio Galaxy in the Perseus Cluster
- Dark Matter and Fundamental Physics Searches with IACTs
- Carpet results on astrophysical gamma rays above 100 TeV
- Revisiting the evidences for spectral anomalies in distant blazars: new data on the photon-ALP mixing
- Axion-like Particles and their Possible Impact on the Very High-Energy Spectrum of M87 Observed by LHAASO