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7 papers

hep-ph2025

Detecting light axions from supernovae in nearby galaxies

Francesca Lecce, Alessandro Lella, Giuseppe Lucente +2

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…

hep-ph2025

Leading bounds on micro- to picometer fifth forces from neutron star cooling

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Alessandro Lella, Ciaran A. J. O'Hare +1

The equivalence principle and the inverse-square law of gravity could be violated at short distances ( to meters) by scalars sporting a coupling to nucleo…

hep-ph2025

Fresh look at the diffuse ALP background from supernovae

Francisco R. Candón, Sougata Ganguly, Maurizio Giannotti +3

Protoneutron stars, highly compact objects formed in the core of exploding supernovae (SNe), are powerful sources of axion-like particles (ALPs). In the SN core, ALPs are dominantl…

hep-ph2025

Probing axion-like particles with multimessenger observations of neutron star mergers

Francesca Lecce, Alessandro Lella, Giuseppe Lucente +4

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can be copiously produced in binary neutron star (BNS) mergers through nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung if the ALP-nucleon couplings are sizable…

hep-ph2025

Exploring the Dark Universe: A European Strategy for Axions and other WISPs Discovery

Deniz Aybas, Francesca Calore, Michele Cicoli +17

Axions and other very weakly interacting slim (with 1 GeV) particles (WISPs) are a common feature of several extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The search…

hep-ph2025

Detecting Supernova Axions with IAXO

P. Carenza, J. A. García Pascual, M. Giannotti +8

We investigate the potential of IAXO and its intermediate version, BabyIAXO, to detect axions produced in core-collapse supernovae (SNe). Our study demonstrates that these experime…