Probing light axion-like particles in vector boson fusion at CMS with data parking and scouting

Sena Durgut, Mariel Peczak, Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez +4

Axion-like particles (ALPs) with masses between 10 MeV and 10 GeV and moderately small couplings sit in an experimental blind spot. They decay too fast for intensity-frontier exper…