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The COSMIC WISPers White Paper: The physics case for Weakly Interacting Slim Particles
Ariel Arza, Deniz Aybas, Shyam Balaji +124
Axions and other very weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs), with masses below 1 GeV, arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In particula…
Search for Axion-Like Particles from Nearby Pre-Supernova Stars
Saurabh Mittal, Thomas Siegert, Francesca Calore +7
Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons that arise in many extensions of the Standard Model and are well-motivated dark matter candidates. Nearby massive s…
Out of the darkness: probing the inflationary era with dark photon dark matter
Pierluca Carenza, Tassia Ferreira, Thong T. Q. Nguyen
A recent hint reported by the TASEH haloscope suggests the possible detection of dark photon dark matter with mass . Due to their production during inflation, dark…
INTEGRAL, eROSITA and Voyager Constraints on Light Bosonic Dark Matter: ALPs, Dark Photons, Scalars, and Vectors
Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Pedro De la Torre Luque, Isabelle John +3
The decay of light bosonic dark matter particles can produce a bright electron/positron () flux that can be strongly constrained by local Voyager observations of the direct…
Sub-keV dark matter can strongly ionize molecular clouds
Pedro De la Torre Luque, Pierluca Carenza, Thong T. Q. Nguyen
We show that the ionization of dense molecular clouds can be used to set strong constraints on dark matter models producing UV/X-ray photons in their annihilation or decay. We plac…
Super-Kamiokande Strongly Constrains Leptophilic Dark Matter Capture in the Sun
Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Tim Linden, Pierluca Carenza +1
The Sun can efficiently capture leptophilic dark matter that scatters with free electrons. If this dark matter subsequently annihilates into leptonic states, it can produce a detec…
In-flight positron annihilation as a probe of feebly interacting particles
Shyam Balaji, Pierluca Carenza, Pedro De la Torre Luque +2
Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) provide a unique environment to study Feebly Interacting Particles (FIPs) such as Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), sterile neutrinos, and Dark Photons (D…
Glueball Axion-Like Particles
Pierluca Carenza, Roman Pasechnik, Zhi-Wei Wang
Dark Yang-Mills sectors that confine to form stable composite states, known as glueballs, have been traditionally proposed as a potential explanation for cosmological Dark Matter (…
Axion Astrophysics
Pierluca Carenza, Maurizio Giannotti, Jordi Isern +2
Stars have been recognized as optimal laboratories to probe axion properties. In the last decades there have been significant advances in this field due to a better modelling of st…
Axion-photon conversion down to the nonrelativistic regime
Clemente Smarra, Pierluca Carenza
In the presence of a magnetic field, axions can convert into photons and vice versa. The phenomenology of the conversion is captured by a system of two coupled Klein-Gordon equatio…
Axion Relic Pockets -- a theory of dark matter
Pierluca Carenza, Joshua Eby, Oksana Iarygina +1
We propose a new theory of dark matter based on axion physics and cosmological phase transitions. We show that theories in which a gauge coupling increases through a first-order ph…
Composite heavy axion-like dark matter
Pierluca Carenza, Roman Pasechnik, Zhi-Wei Wang
We propose a novel class of Dark Matter (DM) candidates in the form of a heavy composite Axion-Like Particle (ALP) with highly suppressed electromagnetic interactions populating va…
Multimessenger constraints for electrophilic feebly interacting particles from supernovae
Pedro De la Torre Luque, Shyam Balaji, Pierluca Carenza
Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of sub-GeV particles that can be copiously produced in the cores of supernovae. A broad family of these particles are…
Constraining gravitational-wave backgrounds from conversions into photons in the Galactic magnetic field
Alessandro Lella, Francesca Calore, Pierluca Carenza +1
High-frequency gravitational waves ( MHz) may provide a unique signature for the existence of exotic physics. The lack of current and future gravitational-wave experim…
rays from in-flight positron annihilation as a probe of new physics
Pedro De la Torre Luque, Shyam Balaji, Pierluca Carenza +1
The ray emission originating from in-flight annihilation (IA) of positrons is a powerful observable for constraining high-energy positron production from exotic sources. By com…
Probing protoneutron stars with gamma-ray axionscopes
Alessandro Lella, Francesca Calore, Pierluca Carenza +4
Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupled to nucleons can be efficiently produced in the interior of protoneutron stars (PNS) during supernova (SN) explosions. If these ALPs are also cou…
Supernova limits on 'QCD axion-like particles'
Alessandro Lella, Eike Ravensburg, Pierluca Carenza +1
In this paper, we explore the phenomenology of massive Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) coupled to quarks and gluons, dubbed 'QCD ALPs', with an emphasis on the associated low-energy ob…
Comprehensive constraints on heavy sterile neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae
Pierluca Carenza, Giuseppe Lucente, Leonardo Mastrototaro +2
Sterile neutrinos with masses up to MeV can be copiously produced in a supernova (SN) core, through the mixing with active neutrinos. In this regard the SN 1987…
Axion emission from supernovae: a cheatsheet
Pierluca Carenza
Supernovae provide fascinating opportunities to study various particles and their interactions. Among these there are neutrinos, axions, and other light weakly interacting particle…
Multimessenger search for electrophilic feebly interacting particles from supernovae
Pedro De la Torre Luque, Shyam Balaji, Pierluca Carenza
We study MeV-scale electrophilic Feebly Interacting Particles (FIPs), that may be abundantly produced in Supernova (SN) explosions, escape the star and decay into electrons and pos…
Robust constraints on feebly interacting particles using XMM-Newton
Pedro De la Torre Luque, Shyam Balaji, Pierluca Carenza
During galactic Supernova (SN) explosions, a large amount of feebly interacting particles (FIPs) may be produced. In this work we analyze electrophilic FIPs with masses in the MeV-…
Cross section for supernova axion observation in neutrino water Cherenkov detectors
Pierluca Carenza, Giampaolo Co', Maurizio Giannotti +4
Axions coupled to nucleons might be copiously emitted from core-collapse supernovae (SNe). If the axion-nucleon coupling is strong enough, axions would be emitted from the SN as a…
Constraining MeV-scale axion-like particles with Fermi-LAT observations of SN 2023ixf
Eike Ravensburg, Pierluca Carenza, Christopher Eckner +1
The Fermi-LAT observations of SN 2023ixf, a Type II supernova in the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy, Messier 101 (M101), presents us with an excellent opportunity to constrain MeV-scale Ax…
Glueball dark matter, precisely
Pierluca Carenza, Tassia Ferreira, Roman Pasechnik +1
We delve deeper into the potential composition of dark matter as stable scalar glueballs from a confining dark gauge theory, focusing on . To predict the relic…