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most citedDo Finite Density Effects Jeopardize Axion Nucleophobia in Supernovae?

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hep-ex2026

Solar axion searches with RES-NOVA: projected sensitivity and first prototype limit

D. Alloni, G. Benato, P. Carniti +49

RES-NOVA is a cryogenic experiment based on PbWO4 scintillating bolometers produced from archaeological lead, originally designed to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scatte…

hep-ph2026

How invisible can QCD axions be? From Supernova emission to Cherenkov signals

Luca Di Luzio, Vincenzo Fiorentino, Maurizio Giannotti +2

We investigate the scenario of maximally invisible axions, namely QCD axions whose interactions with matter arise exclusively from the irreducible coupling to gluons responsible fo…

astro-ph.CO2026

NuSTAR as an Axion Helioscope: probing axion-nucleon and axion-electron couplings

Tiziano Zanzarella, Francisco R. Candón, Maurizio Giannotti +5

We investigate solar X-ray observations as a probe of axions and axion-like particles. These particles can be produced in the interior of the Sun via the conversion of thermal phot…

hep-ph2026

Enhanced Stellar Production of Weakly Interacting Slim Particles from Non-Thermal Nuclear Cascades

Víctor Fonoll, Maurizio Giannotti, Giuseppe Lucente

Weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs) can be produced in stars through the conversion of non-thermal photons generated in nuclear reactions. Previous studies have generally tre…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

Axions at the meV Crossroads: Theory, Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Experiments

Michele Cicoli, Francesco D'Eramo, Luca Di Luzio +18

The meV mass range has emerged as a focal point in axion physics, where advances in theory, cosmology, astrophysics, and experimental techniques converge. Axions in this mass range…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

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★ 2 cited

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-ph2024

Axion-induced pair production: a new strategy for axion detection

Fernando Arias-Aragón, Maurizio Giannotti, Giovanni Grilli di Cortona +1

We revisit and update the axion-induced pair production process in a nuclear electric field mediated by the axion-electron coupling, $a+{{}^{A}_{Z}X} \rightarrow {{}^{A}_{Z}X} + e^…

hep-ph2024★ 7 cited

Do Finite Density Effects Jeopardize Axion Nucleophobia in Supernovae?

Luca Di Luzio, Vincenzo Fiorentino, Maurizio Giannotti +2

Nucleophobic axion models, wherein axion couplings to both protons and neutrons are simultaneously suppressed, can relax the stringent constraints from SN 1987A. However, it remain…